RE-STATEMENT OF DEMOCRATIC FAITH
"WE believe that government by consent of the governed is the only political foundation upon which world-com-munity can be built up as an enduring fellowship of in"""ternational solidarity and even the 'classless society. But we cannot 'trust the people' in the sense of believing that the voice of the people is the voice of God, or that their sovereignty must necescsarily mean sovereignty of righteousness. The times await a re-statement of the democratic faith in terms consonant with the moral realism of Chi istianity—in terms that recognise also as a person, responsible in his freedom, which freedom means, not absence of restraint, but self-determining activity under the universal law; in terms therefore which recognise man's involvement in world tragedy, which tragedy, nevertheless,, points beyond itself to a sovereign Good without which it could have no meaning."—The Rev. G. 0. Griffith in "Interpreters of Man/'
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 34, 19 December 1944, Page 4
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148RE-STATEMENT OF DEMOCRATIC FAITH Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 34, 19 December 1944, Page 4
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