WORLD BOLSHEVISM.

Otaki Mail, 8 January 1919, Page 4

WORLD BOLSHEVISM.

"TERRIBLE DAYS COMING.' ' , BISHOP'S'WAENING-. A terrible calamity hi the form of world-wide Bolshevism, unless the true spirit of Christianity is to come into -its kingdom again, was predicted at the Ckristchurch Cathedral on Christmas morning. His Lordship had been speaking about the spirit of Christmas, howit was observed from a material point by too many people as a body without a soul. Ho spoke of the rejection of Christ by the Jewish people, followed liy the fall of Jewish nationality, and the destruction of its people. We to-' day, declared his Lordship, were in equal peril, the shadow of a great danger hung aver us all. Bolshevism — what did it mean? That all oyer, the world there was a feeling that the great reality expressed by Christmas should be expressed in life. The world had been - asking when was "Christianity going to "be brought into effect. What.', was Bolshevism.} It was just that fear, that sense of the world driven' to despair—nothing else. 11, came to men, ignorant men. who could see just this: that things were not what they ought to be. They found no help, and-des-cended in despair, destruction, andmim

''And it is .coming, it is coming, it is coming," ' said his Lordship, "as surely as Christians are unfaithful to the Church." We thought wo could slop it by maintaining a standing army, that in any case it was foreign to J)C character of ttaJ British people, but it was there, and it must come till it overwhelmed our churches, our civil law upon which we prided ourselves, and there was nothing left but a desert to which once more a message from above might be heard. Ho know very terrible days wore coming, and, perhaps, coining very soon..