Christian Standards Needed In Politics
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Received Thursday, 9 a.m. fiONDQN, Nov. 1G. The church was^never intended \ to;'ehgage in the" solutiop of poliv [ tieal . problems ahd in that senae [ it. pqght to. !t>e Ron-.gqlitiqal; said i the Chancellor of the Exchequerv[ Sir SMord Cripps, at a luncheoni bf the "llPhse gf the Laity of tlpe 1 Church Assembly today. | , don-t want politics in our[ religion, .tout we do want Ohristianr stand.ards, in opr politics. .The ehurch should UPt attempt. to dP-l yise.remedies for partieular social, | economiCjah^ ihdustrial eyils, That I is the function of technieians sueh i as politicians and administrators, hqt the churph ean and should cpnstahtly inspire .those techni-. eians and 'the'public whom they] serye ih the standards of judgmentj which Christ laid down for us and wpuld have applied."
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 November 1949, Page 5
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