PUBLIC OPINION

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1931, Page 3

PUBLIC OPINION

THE KILLING MACHINE

. ‘T’. n , k ; Tng machine is Fading into the background,” said Professor Gilbert Murray *to. delegates from 3000 branches of the League of Nations Union in Blackpool. “At the Disarmamr lit Conference next spring we shall know how much farther it will lade, he added, “but it will gradually fade out like the Cheshire Cat in ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ with a grin on its face and perhaps with a few teeth left. Wai has become a much more improbable factor than it was before the Great War. War is 'd-finitely receding a good deal into the background.”

A BISHOP OSH CREED. “I distrust these politifco-ecclesiasti-cal negotiations,” declared Bishop Barnes in a recent speech. When* ecclesiastical politics enter by the door religion flies out of the wiidow. 1 I am more •"concerned to preserve religious truth and Christian morality than to construct ecclesiastical alliances. What I demand,” said Dr Barnes, “is a quite definite creed, for I believe that we cannot exist without a creed. We need, for instance, the affimation of. such an important Christian belief as the doctrine of personal immortality. No creed can be satisfactory’ which does not formulate .Christ’s emphasis on purity and I desire to see a new type of creed arise, and if and when it comes we shall also, I believe, need Articles to repudiate errors—modern no less than ancient—and to affirm philosophical and psychological truths S nch as the moral freedom of the individual.”