Fighting the Good Fight.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 December 1939, Page 4

Fighting the Good Fight.

Preaching at St. John’s Church, Cardiff, the Bev 11. K. Archdall. Principal of St. David’s College. Lampeter, said: "We misconcieve Christ’s holy doctrine if wo say that He forbids under all conceivable conditions a righteous indignation or the use of force in the protection of the sanctities. Indeed. I should consider it wrong and un-Christian not to use violence in some circumstances, and I should feel that to refrain from such violence would be to partake almost directly of the guilt of the aggressor and make myself his accomplice in crime and sin. 1 cannot think that Christ’s doctrine of non-resistance forbids the physical violence of a policeman, exercised with seli'-conirol in protection of the moral order of civilisation; neither is it possible to doubt that a war which is really waged to prevent, cynical and cold-ly-designed aggression will be condemned by Christ provided that it is waged as tiremen fight fire, without hate or blood lust, but not without, heroic bravery and self-sacrifice for tlie general good of humanity as well as for our own safety.