CHURCHES' NEW YEAR MESSAGE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 92, 13 January 1920, Page 5

CHURCHES' NEW YEAR MESSAGE

TESTS OF REBUILDING LIFE OF PEACH. London, January 10. Tho Archbishops of Canterbury and York, tho Itev. 1\ B Meyer (Christ Church. Westminster), tho Itev. J. Scott Liilscth (Methodist Church), the ltev. ! J. 11. Shakespeare ißaptist Church),, and the Rev. A. Guttery, as leaders of the churches of their denominations, have issued a Nciv Year's message based 011 the recent anneal of Mr. Lloyd George ami tho Prime Ministers o£ Che self-govern-intr dominions, that efforts for tho tot terimi of the world should not bo Iwsed inerelv 0)1 material things. Tho mes sago says the Prime Minister's appeal is tin: utterance of statesmen who have luu experience of the arbitrament of war The. tests of rebuilding of a life of peaci are to seek first the kingdom of God am His riehteoiisnoss as a means for tostiiij nil our actions, social, industrial, and in ternational. bv the standard of ITi teaching. "We put before the profess imr Chrifetian this threefold call: Firsl to re-dedicate ourselves to the active sot vic« of Christ; secondly, in combating tin iniDul.se to 11 mere selfish gain we sliouli teat ,our actions bv Christian standards thirdly, we should unite in prayer, conn sei. and action, so that our comnioi Christian citizenship may become th foremost power of national life." —Aus. iv.yl. Cable Assn.