THEN AND NOW

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 69, 4 May 1943, Page 3

THEN AND NOW

WE LEARN THE HARD WAY An extract from a statement circulated in Britain—it has point for people in the Dominion of New Zealand. We have been a pleasure loving people, dishonouring God's day, picnicking and bathing. Now the sea shores are barred — no picnicking, no bathing. We have preferred motor travel to church going. Now there is a shortage of motor fuel. We have ignored the ringing of Church Bells calling us to worship. Now the "church bells cannot ring cxcept to warn of invasion. We have left the churches half empty when they should have been filled with worshippers. Now they are in ruinsWe would not listen to the way of peace. Now we are forced to 'listen to the way of war. The money we would not give to the Lord's work. Now is taken from us in taxes and higher prices,. The food for which we forgot to thank God Now is unobtainable. The service Ave refused to give God Now is conscripted to our country. Lives we refused, to live under God's control Now are under the Nation's control. Nights we would not spend "watch sng unto prayer"' Now we spend in anxious air raid precautions. Shall we fall on our faces before God confessing our sins, and the sins of our people, and turn from our wicked ways. Sec Daniel ch. 9.