CHURCH & POLITICS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1932, Page 2

CHURCH & POLITICS

VIEWS OF AN ANGLICAN BISHOP

CANBERRA, May 18. “I am not going to have the Church annexed as an ally and ;a possible source of support for any anti-Com-munist campaign that politicians like to organise,” said the Anglican Bishop of Goulburn (.Dr Radford) in an address at a pari, ;h luncheon. The Federal Cabinet was represented at the luncheon by the Assistant Minister (Mr Perkins), Sir Littleton Groom, and the Government Whip in the House ol Representatives (Mr Gardner) were also present. Dr Radford said that, though hi,remarks . would not apply to anyone present, he intended to issue a warning. “There are statesmen,” he said “who have never attended a church, sent , their children to Sunday School and never paid a ‘bob’ in support to the Church. I am going to have the Church discovered and annexed by those men and hitched to their car for a particular form of social campaign or anti-Comniunist campaign Communism is not in itself bad. There are Christian Communists. It Ls the organised atheistic Communism that we have to fight, and that is a different thing altogether. What wp say to the politicians, however, is: ‘lf you must coiiie aiid jbin us—fall in behind us, aiid ti‘ain with us in the Church; We are not goiilg to be joined to any tail Of yoUrs; you must join us.’ M