"EVIL OF RACIALISM."
"It is a striking witness of the perverseness of human nature that an epoeh of history, in which intercourse has become more than " ever possible between different parts of the world, should be marked by a growth in the evil of raeialism and of nationalism based upon race. Christians have to consider not only the horrors that accompany the colour-bar in centrain eountries, or the recrudescence of Jew-baiting in so-called Christian lands, Hut the still graver fact that racial barriers, both against the coloured man and against the Christian of Jewish blood, are to be found within the church itself. It should be no matter for surprise that the religion of Mohammed can ' in some lands plausibly offer itself to the non-white people as the only religion in which a real equality and brotherhood is possible The resentment of Eastern races at the aloofness of the white man and at his economic and political advantage has long been keen: it is now mcreased by a diminution in moral regard."— From a statement by the World Conference of Faith and Order. •• «...
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 21, 18 October 1937, Page 4
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