SPIRITUAL LEADERS
HOLDING THE TORCH ALOFT. "If the worst should happen and we are plunged into a war for what we believe to be a great cause, an almost overwhelming task will be laid on the spiritual leaders of the nation by which I do not mean only the clergy,” wrote the Dean of St Paul’s, Dr W. R. Matthews, a few days before the war broke out. "It is to keep alive the flame of idealism in the squalor of war, to recognise steadily that we have a duty not only to our own nation'but to humanity and the future. If we can do this we shall not weaken the spirit cf endurance and sacrifice —wc shall enhance it —and we shall secure the condition without which any enduring peace at the end of strife is impossible. I hope our national leaders will dare to speak to us in the great language of duty and honour and not in the small language of self-interest and self-preservation. It is the great language which the nation understands —for in its heart it believes in God.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 November 1939, Page 2
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184SPIRITUAL LEADERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 November 1939, Page 2
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