TO-DAY'S TROUBLES.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20181, 9 March 1931, Page 10

TO-DAY'S TROUBLES.

REV. T. W. ARMOUR'S VIEWS. ■ "In view of the serious time* throngl which the nation is passing we h*v< been asked .to observe • day of prayer But I cannot help feeling that migh at-leant have been called 4? suitably ft special remembrance when wool y wa £33 a balp, as when it is £6 or filp for a nation is in mora danger from iti ..prosperity than from its adversity," saic 1 the Kev.'T. 'W. Amour, preaching a Knox Church, yesterday, on "Medipin< for Sick Times." . ''The Psalmist lived in times as dis tressed as ours and we ought to.be abh to utter his confidence," said Mi Armour. "He realised tb&the was no living in a haphazard world, hut thai ' unseen forces of law and order wer< operating.'-' The < people had seen pritsci rolling through the last 18 months uhti It seemed that national efficiency wai threatened. Some people were inclinet to "be hysterical in* thought and action But'those who knew'even a littJe pj economies' should lcno'w that there w?r< forces at work .which operated beyont the fear and the greed of wen- ant would, bring "better times. Those eco nomic laws were aq muph the Iftvrs o: God a? the Ten Ctotnm&ndments. ■ " It was a great revelation, that th< Creator supremely concerned ioa moral and spiritual values. Those whi sought the uplift felt ai they were beating the air, trot thi Psalmist'! was sure that the Captain 03 the Host of the I»ord was on the ttelfl. oi battle. History justified that faith, If as the Bible showed,'peopj? were"" ye called, in times of a'dversity, to. siwplic ity and xGvere»<<e, men of faith cughto in, such times rather tha* mourn. They should reflect, too, thai for the Christian,'the Lord who/Teignct was tne God and Fathter of Jesus Christ He had been revealed is onewhokneiii all the circumstances of New Zealand -«If we thi? witness of- Chrisl to oiir souls it wonld confidence and strength and be a. further fc*use ft» rejoicing,"soneluded l&r Armour.