CHRISTIAN ORDER CAMPAIGN

Southland Times, Issue 24884, 26 October 1942, Page 3

CHRISTIAN ORDER CAMPAIGN

All over New Zealand yesterday the participating churches in the Campaign for Christian Order delivered messages on the Christian doctrine of faith. Faith was not wishful thinking, said one speaker yesterday, but an assured belief and confidence in God; an implicit trust in His guidance and His truth. “A well ordered Christian life must be based on faith. It would give us the heart of a lion to bear present evils and the eye of an eagle to see future good. Jesus, Himself, is the author and perfector of our faith. He is at once the inspiration and the example of faith. He has left us a perfect pattern of what faith is and what faith does.” The difference faith made to individuals was to enable them to make their home a place of holy affections. The family was God's school and as a social unit must be safeguarded. In the troubled atmosphere of war many were adopting modern ideas of so-called superior enlightenment. The home as an institution was fighting for its life and if facts and figures meant anything at all there was something sadly wrong with the birth-rate in New Zealand. Life was being destroyed at an alarming rate, amounting to race suicide. The Christian Church recognized that economic considerations were also important and the family man was often penalized. Full provision must be made for family needs whether by some system of family allowances or in some other way. Homes should be the foundation, not only of a Christian democracy, but of the city of ] God. 1