"ENEMIES OF CHRIST."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 268, 11 April 1914, Page 2

"ENEMIES OF CHRIST."

BARBAROUS ARISTOCRATS. TIU.XGS THAT LEAD WORKERS TO REVOLT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, April 7. "So many people amongst the privileged classes are not realising the responsibility attaching to their privileges, and their bad example is filtering down into all classes of society."

This statement was made by the Bishop of Auckland (Dr Avorill) in the Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon, in the course of one of the series of Lenten addresses to men arranged this week. His Lordship had bead drawing a parallel between the elTemies of Christ—the Pharisees, or religious formalists, and the Saducees, the aristocratic, political faction—and certain types of character existing to-day. "We said very hard things at the time about these poor strikers," continued His Lordship. . "They were called. 'Red, Feds,' and so on, but when the toilers see men who occupy positions of ease and privilege living absolutely barbarous lives, I. cannot be surprised if they feel constrained to get a further share of the good things of life." The responsibility did not lie with the workers, added His Lordship, but on the classes above —those who wore not setting an example, and were not realising the responsibility of the position God had given to them. Incidentally the Bishop touched upon the "jingoism which is some times tonfused witli patriotism," and said that it was because of what prompted that spirit that service for the country stank in the nostrils of tlic people. They knew that there were people who called themselves patriots simply for the sake of self-interest. Until men in leading positions in this country had a sense ef the higher patriotism—the spreading of the Kingdom of God—the nation of the Empire would remain stagnant, if it I did not go back.