“Appropriating God.”
‘•When we think of the nations unhappily at war with one another, using the same petitions, applying the same-self-examination to their own national failings, and uttering the same thanksgivings, we can only thank God for this help to avoid the old and dangerous custom of appropriating God to our own side, of praying against one another, or of asking for our triumph at the expense of our opponents humiliation.” said the Bishop of Christchurch in his address to Synod at the Cathedral. He said that the world was learning to see the cause of God. in its unity.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1939, Page 6
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100“Appropriating God.” Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1939, Page 6
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