RELIGIOUS APATHY

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 33, 9 February 1933, Page 7

RELIGIOUS APATHY

Reference-to-the small place which the Church occupied in the lives of some men in public life and men of influence was made by : Bishop C. A. Cherrington, Bishop of Waikato, in a sermon at St. Peter's Cathedral, Hamilton, on Sunday evening (states the "N.Z.- Herald^"). Bishop Cherrington said it was amazing how Christianity had spread among low-caste Indians, but history merely repeated itself, for it was among the slaves that the Christian religion first spread in the days of old. The public men and the scientists were not found in the churches, and it was a rare thing for a politician to openly worship God. It was well known that the public and learned men did not have much to do with religion, but God did not want them unless they humbled themselves. It was amazing to see the different kinds of people God had called upon to do His work. The most lowly worked for Him and it was because of these people that Christianity was in the world to-day. God did not use great deeds and flaming posters to advance His kingdom, but sought out the daily run and the common task, and it was the Christian people who were not known to the world who had made Christianity what it was to-day. God had chosen the weak to confound the mighty. 1-. .