CHRISTIAN ORDER CAMPAIGN

Evening Star, Issue 24294, 8 September 1942, Page 2

CHRISTIAN ORDER CAMPAIGN

AIMS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE The first of four broadcast addresses in the Campaign for Christian Order was given in the Civic Theatre, Christchurch, last evening by the Veil. Archdeacon W. Bullork on the subject ‘ Let Justice Be Done.’ Archdeacon Bullock defined the term, social justice, and set out some of iho aims of the Christian Church in building a new world order of fair play, equality of consideration, and pity, and goodwill joined with justice. Archbishop West-Walson introduced Archdeacon Bullock, and traced the history of the Campaign for Christian Order. Archdeacon Bullock first considered legal justice, and said that every law was unjust to some. “ While the rich man goes unconcernedly to court and the poor man trembles because of the expense, legal justice can never be ideal,” he concluded. Ho next examined the contradictory tends of Justice. “ Every man must coupt as one man and none as more than one,” ami *• Render to every man liis due.” He pointed out that Nature had made all men alike in one re=pcct, I Hat of their basic needs of sleep, food, drink, and work, but that she had at the same time so devised matters that men were essentially unequal in capacities and powers. The difficulty, he suggested, might be solved by the application of modern interpretation of the golden rule by giving equality of consideration to all men.

The problems discussed by Archdeacon Bullock included those of the just distribution of profits, the abolition of poverty, the fair distribution of wages so that each worker gets his duo. (he wise consideration for the child—to provide sustenance for his body and also good education—the provision of adequate housing for all, and a proper share in the management of industry for labour a well as for capital.

“ No church can be true to its commission if it allows the law to be a respecter of person, if it allows the injustice of man against man, of class against class, of nation against nation, to go unchallenged,” he said in conclusion. “ No amount of piety will make up for a lack of social sense. Our slogan is production for service.”