MECHANICAL IDOLS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1939, Page 9

MECHANICAL IDOLS

ISSUES FACED WITH STERN WILL. "1 am confident of the issue of this struggle. We face it in the stern will to victory, assured of this one thing that they who battle for the things of God will not be put to shame." said the Rev White Anderson, M.C., preaching in St Cuthbert's. Edinburgh. "At the same time, we must be clear in our minds that we are fighting for no tribal deity. Our God is the God of the whole earth; He is the Redeemer of all. We are to fight not that God will vindicate us. but that God will vindicate Himself. Only thus will we keep our motives clean and our hearts from hate, and learn the deep spiritual lessons the world must now learn. We must see. at the outset, that it is not God who has brought this catastrophe upon the world. It is the result of man's stubbornness and wilfulness of heart. Belief in human progress has ousted real religion. Man has been worshipping his own prowess and glorying in the machines which ho has made. This is an age of idolatry and all our idols are mechanical. Now the very machines of which we boasted ari» become the means of our destruction. All of us are to blame and all of us must take stock of the situation. You cannot get to heaven if you take the road to hell, and the road we have taken has led us to where we are this night."