Bishop Says “Break The New Paganism”

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 333, 14 January 1937, Page 8

Bishop Says “Break The New Paganism”

TIDES OF PERSECUTION WASH OUR SHORES • LONDON. Warning of the danger of 4 ‘revived paganism” from “great areas ol Europe” affecting Britain was given by Dr. Neville Lovett, addressing Salisbury Diocesan Conference for thf list time as Bishop of the Diocese. *<lt is inevitable that the tides u disturbance and persecution in neigh bouring countries should wash in ovei our coasts and have an unsettling effect,' ’ he said. “Only a definite Christian stance firmly held in all our towns and village.* by all the members of the Church, wil prove sufficient to withstand the infec tion of revived paganism overseas, ant that which is called, ironically enough the new morality. “The holy Catholic Church, like tin British Army in France 20 years ago must develop such a unity of purpose such energy of action, such camaradenas shall fling back, broken and dis ordered, the new paganism, and canoe out the barbaric methods which suppor and foster it. ” Dr. Lovett told the conference tha 1 Biskops are zealous poachers. He was referring to the appointmen’ of Dr. G. B. Allen, B'-shop Suffrangar of Sherborne, as Archdeacon and Assistant Bishop of Oxford. * ‘However unscrupulous a poache may be as to rabbits and partridges,' he said, 41 it takes an exceptional ruf fian to bring down a red deer. Sher borne is in Salisbury Diocese.”