MORE TRUCULENT THAN EVER

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 461, 1 July 1937, Page 5

MORE TRUCULENT THAN EVER

GERMANY TO-DAY Attitude Of Baptist Church Press Association —Copyright London, May 10. Opening a debate at the Baptist Union Assembly at Manchester, on the attitude Baptists should adopt towards war, the Rev. J. Ivory Cripps, of Birmingham, said: “Our real monument to our million dead seems to be th'at we are re-arming furiously 'against a Germany more truculent than ever. “A daring gesture of disarmament would not involve one more risk to us or to Europe than the policy of going on as we were, answering aeroplane for aeroplane, gas for gas, gun for gan, until finally the explosion overwhelmed us all.” The Rev. Hugh Martin, London, supporting the Christian non-pacifisf. view, declared that to tolerate the bully was not ;to bring us nearer the Kingdom of God. He had no desire to see the gangster inherit the earth. Commending the council’s report on the attitude of the Baptist denomination to war, the Rev. Dr. J. H. Rushbrooke, of London, said it set forth the Christian conviction of ithe majority of their committee that the formula of pacifism held no promise of abolition of war, but rather, in such a world as ours, encouraged the criminal state.