Germany has entered on this fearful conflict with the moral disadvantage which is implicit in the condemnation of the non-German world, writes the Bishop of Durham, Dr Hensley Henson. She is under a heavier interdict than any which the medieval Papacy, even in the climax of its moral authority, could impose. For “the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.” and there can be no more trustworthy certificate of the Divine Mind than the general verdict of the civilised conscience. In striking for justice, liberty, and international law we may be assured that (I borrow Bishop Butler’s phrase) we are “on the side of the Divine administration.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1939, Page 2
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