STRIVING FOR PEACE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1939, Page 2

STRIVING FOR PEACE

BISHOP OF NORWICH’S SERMON. "Peace at its loftiest ought to be active and constructive, as constructive as war is destructive, as positive as war is negative.” said the Bishop of Norwich. Dr Pollock, in a recent sermon. "A strong peace cannot be imposed from the outside. That sort of peace will not work unless it moves hand in hand with goodwill. We need the concord, the union of hearts of which the Litany speaks before we can reach an eager, active, extending peace. Trust must take the place of fear. If ’we want peace in personal and private relations, if we seek peace and ensue it in public policies and international dealings, we must exercise its opposite, the spirit of suspicion. We must make the best of other people and not the worst. We must expect the best from them and not be against them before they have spoken or acted. We must make allowances, and be sure that we know all before we become vehement in our blame. We must, get near to them in heart, so far as may be post, siblc, and not glare at them with thßm eyes of a prejudice which will almost | be disappointed if, in the end, we find ' that something good comes from themA 1 Such concord comes from the sacred source of the deepest and highest unity.”