"THE WAR DRIFT"
-'• Sir,—Bishop Sprott in his address to the .Synod is reported to have said: '"Men'ivho'are'in 'closest touch with, and have the'largest knowledge of, tho world problems tell us that what the world "most heeds'is just' tho religion of-Jesus 'Christ."" 'What does it matter to a prophet what the world has to say? but it is ■ fortunate "for the Bishop that lw doesno t personally make this pronouncement, for' it is" not the "religion" but tho spirit' of Jesus Christ which the world needs 10-day, the spirit .of the meek, and lqvlv Jesus,. '.'Blessed are the peacemakers," not' war-makers. The prophet Isaiah (i, 2S) declares that "they that forsake the Lord shall- be consumed ; has Christendom merited this penalty i True, God is slow to anger and plenteous iii "mercy, but the iniquity to-day - is greater than before 1914. Notwithstanding the fact that liftv millions have already been destroyed, we may therefore expect a still greater outpouring of Gods wrath (Isaiah xiii, 80-* .The war may, as the- Bishop says, "have shaken the faith of some in God," but who ,is » blame for that? God is the..saine yesterday, to-day, etc.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 245, 10 July 1920, Page 7
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191"THE WAR DRIFT" Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 245, 10 July 1920, Page 7
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