CHRISTIAN ORDER

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 262, 4 August 1942, Page 3

CHRISTIAN ORDER

Campaign In Hutt Valley

“There are three things in the campaign which are of importance. We should rethink the Christian message for this day and hour, we should republish it, and we should pul it into practice,” said Archdeacon W. Bldlock, in addresses at Lower Hutt and- I'etoue on Sunday when opening in the Hutt Valley the campaign for Christian Order. One of the chief drawbacks for a considerable time had been the idea that God spoke to us only through the mist of centuries, but djj not speak to the modern man directly, he said. "If we cannot hear Him speaking to us through the events of Libya and Russia and the countries involved in the struggle today then we are of all people most to be pitied. The world we are living in has got itself turned upside down, and must be righted. The proper order of things should be—God, then man, then things, and lastly money, which is the reverse of conditions today. The first step in accomplishing this change is the preaching by the churches of the message of God for ’today.”

Mr. 11. 'Wadman, who also spoke at each plaee, emphasized the need to find a new basis for society, and said that for that we needed the inspiration of the Christian Gospel and the ideals of the New Testament. At each place the ministers of the cooperating churches were on the platform and took part in the campaign. The chair was taken at Lower Hutt by the Rev. F. P. Parker, and at Petouc by the deputy-mayor, Cr. H. Green.