SANE TESTIMONY.
A CLERGYMAN'S IDEAL OF CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLE. COURAGE AND DEVOTION THE TE3TS. NOT MERE TALKING FROM A PULPIT. .*«#«* During sbl Sotirs's of i serihbn a£ Palmerston Nor'tfi $J Sunday last. Rev. C. C. Harper (Anglican) said he desired strongly to protest against the assumption, made in speeches and writings, that those who voted for the continuance of the open bar were going contrary to their Christian duty and to Christian principle.
He said in this matter, which was a purely political one, the question of Christian duty or Christian principle did not enter at all.
There were just as good Christian people who conscientiously believed that No-License would be bad tor the community as there were on the other side.
No Act of Parliament ever made men moral, nor removed temptation; because if you removed it in one place it cropped up in another. What was wanted and what was really effective was the work of men who had the courage and devotion by personal help to give to others strength to resist temptation, and this was the Christ method.
This personal help was far more effective, and needed far more courage, than talking from a pulpit or platform against any particular evil. *
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3045, 16 November 1908, Page 5
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204SANE TESTIMONY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3045, 16 November 1908, Page 5
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