NO MONOPLY OF FAITH
There is no monopoly of Christian faith on one side or the other of this conflict (says Dr Ernest Barker, the eminent scholar, writing in the London Observer). We British .on our side have learned, at any rate, this wisdom: That we do not claim that God is the peculiar God of our nation, belonging only to us. We know that there are faithful hearts on the other side — hearts that have kept even a higher faith than ours, because they have kept it at greater odds. Therein indeed lies our hope. Christianity is not rent, even if States are at daggers drawn. Perhaps the Christian Churches of Europe—Catholic, Calvinist. Lutheran, Anglican and Orthodox —stand closer together to-day than they have stood for centuries past. In the last quarter of a century there has been an oecumenical movement in the churches —a movement towards understanding and sympathy, if not towards formal union—which is like the bright signs of sunrise. There has been more division of States; there has been less division of churches. Politics is not everything; and we exaggerate the might of our times when we flx our eyes exclusively on politics.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24227, 20 February 1940, Page 12
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