COMMUNISM PERIL
REMARKS BY A BISHOP
“UNBELIEF IN GOD.”
MELBOURNE, May 14
.Addressing a Church of England Men’s Society Anzac Communion breakfast at Bendigo, the Bishop of Bendigo, Dr. Baker, said he was gvavely concerndd with the growth m Australia of atheism in frequent combination with Communism. The Communion breakfast was the first to be held on Anzac Day in Bendigo and was attended by about 200 men from widely-separated parishes.
The bishop said tli’it .the church bad no concern with Communism from an economic point of view, and if was wrong to mix up all kinds of Communism with atheism. “Side by side with the growth of Cbrnnumism, however,” he siik!, “lias been a definite growth of unbelief in God and disregard of the Sanctity of tiie home. In otjiijr words, all the,great pillars on which society..'and' civilisation ' are built up,' foith in God and. the sanctity of the Jionie, arc threatened by the growth of Communism in its preterit form. If there is any foundation for society in Australia and the rest of the civilised world it- rests on.the twin points I have mentioned.
- “Lately I have been to places in this diocese where there are outbreaks to a lesser or gi eater extent of blatant unblief in God. I urge members of the Church of England Men’s Society, to make a. special study jf their reasons for belief in God and their witness to their faith. I do not believe there was ever, a period since the ago of reason when it was so. easy to believe in God, either from an individual, scientific, sociological, philosophical or even political point of view. Faith- is .needed in the world to-day arid I ask you .to spread this faith and -remind you that the Church is an anvil. that lias worn • cut many hammers.”
The Bishop of -St. Arnaud, Dr. •James, said that with Communism as a nolitical theory the Church had nothing to do, but they were likely to h.« very seriously confronted by Marxian. Gonununi m, imported from Russia, in tho next few year's. Russian Communism was opposed to God.
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