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COULD THE CHURCH SURVIVE WAR?

— Press Assn.

Prospect Gloomy Without a Spiritual Revival BISHOP BARNES'S VIEW

(By Telegraph-

— Copyright.!

(Received 1, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 31. The Rt. Rev. E. W. Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham, in the course of a speech at a conference of Modern Cliurehnien at Cambridge, said the prospects of tlie churches were gloomy unless there was a religious revival ot a spiritual outburst. If there were another war, political revolutions would be inevitable. The Spanish revolution had fired popular passion, and the priests and the churches had been attack ed witb zeal,

obviousiy spontaneous. There must have been a secret, bitter animosity to the Church, as the enemy of spiritual and material freedom. "When the revolution comes in Italy, will the Church escape the same pent-up rage of the people?" Bishop Barnes asked. "The Italian Church is the ally if not the tool of Fascism. Te Deums celebrated victories over the illaraied Abyssinians by the aeroplanes and poison gas of 'Catholie' civilisation. ' '

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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 193, 1 September 1937, Page 5

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COULD THE CHURCH SURVIVE WAR? Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 193, 1 September 1937, Page 5

COULD THE CHURCH SURVIVE WAR? Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 193, 1 September 1937, Page 5

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