BULWARK OF LIBERTY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26621, 18 November 1947, Page 4

BULWARK OF LIBERTY

IMPORTANCE OF THE CHURCH WELCOME TO DR TINSLEY If the Church were lost, all liberty would ,die, said the Rev. Dr C. J. Tinsley, of Australia, the chairman of the Baptist World Alliance, during the civic reception tendered him in the Council Chambers in Dunedin yesterday. Atheistic Communism was sweeping the world and secularism was growing rapidly, he continued. Those persons who criticised the work of the Church and derided the highest men and institutions in the land did not realise that they owed their freedom of speech to Jesus Christ. Liberty of the soul was the first liberty, and if h were lost all other liberties would also disappear. Dr Tinsley was welcomed by the Mayor, Mr Cameron, who paid a tribute to the work of the Church in Dunedin, which had been built on religious and educational foundation* Associated in the welcome were Mr A W. Paterson, president of the Otag< and Southland Auxiliary of- the Nev Zealand Baptist Union, the Rev. E. Yi Batts, of the Baptist Church, the Rev W. A. Stevely, of the Presbyterian Church, the Rev. D. J. D. Hickman, of the Methodist Church, and the Rev F. de Lisle, of the Congregationalist Church.