FLOWING WITH MILK

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 90, 13 October 1934, Page 13

FLOWING WITH MILK

BUT NOT WITH MONEY

UNEMPLOYMENT NOT

JUSTIFIED

"Wrong Turning Points in Civilisation" was the subject of an address delivered by the Rev. W. S. Rollings last evening at the annual conference of the New Zealand Baptist Union.

Mr. Rollings said that with Sir George Paish ho affirmed that, fundamentally, there was no justification for unemployment and the poverty which now existed. This was true of the world. It was emphatically true of New Zealand —a land flowing with milk, but not with money. Millions of money, however, were hoarded in the banks. The crisis, then, was not God-ordained'; it was man-made. It was artificially created, and not tho result of inevitable laws. Economic and social evils which inflicted suffering upon untold millions in the world today wero remediable if men had tho courage to apply the remedy. The new hell into which our modern economic system had plunged the masses could be changed into a new heaven on earth within a year if nations would adopt the principles and programme of Jesus.

Mr. Rollings said the supreme tasK of statesmanship was to divorce the land from greed, to give tho man who tilled tho soil security of tenure and a right to the products of his labour, and to secure for the people all com-munity-created values, and so fulfil the purpose of the Creator who had mado tho land, not to minister to the pride and vanity or the greed of a few, but to provide life and freedom and social opportunity for His children.