THE CHURCH TO-DAY
DAWN OF NEW ERA
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ) CHEISTCHUBCH, ICth November. "These are. not days in which we should allow our hearts to become depressed, because depression breeds despair," said the Eev. M. A. Kugby Pratt, the president, speaking at the Methodist Synod this morning. He expressed a belief that the depression marked the dawn of a new era of prosperity. 'Its evolution depended on how. tho issues of the period of transition were faced. ' After referring to the difficulties that the Church had encountered, Mr. Pratt said that critics had levelled slanderous and unqualified criticism on its work. "The critic loves a shining mark and picks on the Church." Good seemed to have been banished from the minds of men as a living and vital factor. This spiritual banishment had caused a spread of a feeling of secularism which had become a blight of modern times. There were people who were disposed to look on the Church as a rest house or club. "If we recognise that the Church is a force we should use it to fight the Church's battles," said Mr. Pratt.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 120, 17 November 1932, Page 7
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187THE CHURCH TO-DAY Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 120, 17 November 1932, Page 7
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