THE CONFLICT OF TO-DAY
Winship
Storey.
We live in an age when the Christian faitli is assailed as it has probably never been since the days of Nero and Domitian; in an age when the sanctities and decencies of life have been discounted, flouted and abandoned. And the hearts of men are aroused to a new realisation of the infinite value of some things they have hitherto, with fatal complacency, taken for granted. The alert has sounded in the world of spirit, and there is given to us, have we only the wit to see it, a marvellous opportunity to recapture for religion the frontlinc place in the affairs of men it ought to have and used to have. We have allowed ourselves to become used to the indifference to Divine standards and apathy of God's claims which have been the melancholy characteristics of our time. The Celestrial Surgeon has failed to "stab our spirits broad awake." But enemy action has.done.it, and the incredibie atrocities we have lived to witness have shown us anew that. jntil men are saved, they are not safe to live with. To catch this mood of quickened moral s con>ciousness is our great and uigent task.
— Rev.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 March 1946, Page 7
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202THE CONFLICT OF TO-DAY Chronicle (Levin), 23 March 1946, Page 7
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