THE DREADFUL WAR AND THE CHURCH

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 7 October 1915, Page 2

THE DREADFUL WAR AND THE CHURCH

"It just baffles me," says a correspondent in one of our contemporaries, " to understand why this dreadful business is allowed to go an any longer-, I am not exactly a Chureh»goer—the last time I went, I think, was when I got married; but I'm proud to have been trained to believe, in the Sovereignty of, God. I've often wondered how the Church looks at this question during this great slaughter."

The moral problems involved in this Titanic struggle are even more absorbingly interesting than the social, economic, or. political puzzles that it s"ugge'sts. The Man in the street "often as^s some awkward, and, p&rhapg, at

times, unfair questions ; but since he represents the great majority of men, an attempt should be made to answer such queries. Is the War a fulfilment of Divine prophecy? Is the Kaiser AntiChrist ? If not, why doesn't the Almighty stop these atrocities ? This would be a interesting sermon for some of our numerous parsons to take up, but whether they can handle it satisfactorily or not, is another question.