“FAITH CANNOT DIE”
ROOSEYELT ON ESSENTIALS OF PEACE MORAL BASIS SOUGHT. NEED OF OVERCOMING FORCES OF EVIL. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. WASHINGTON, March 16. President Roosevelt, in a world-wide broadcast in connection with the convention of the Christian Foreign Service, declared that the world was seeking a moral basis for peace. He added: “It cannot be a real peace if it fails to recognise brotherhood. "It cannot be a lasting peace if the fruit of it is oppression, starvation or cruelty, or if human life is dominated by armed camps. . "It cannot be a sound peace if small nations must live in fear of their powerful neighbours. "It cannot be a moral peace if freedom from invasion is sold for tribute.
“It cannot be an intelligent peace if it denies the free passage or knowledge of those ideals which permit mon to find common ground. “It cannot be a righteous peace if worship of God is denied. “The world, on these fundamentals, did not have true peace in the years between the ending of the World War and the beginning of the present wars. The band of missionaries whom you are meeting to honour understood this. They permitted no threat to their integrity or to the institutions of the nations in which they worked. They sought to promote international order based on human kindness.
“The active search for peace which the early Christians preached meant, meeting and overcoming those forces which set themselves against the brotherhood of man and which denied the equality of souls before the Throne of God. In those olden days they faced an apparently unconquerable force, yet they were victorious.
"I offer my greetings to you as a congregation of faith in the certainty (hat you will help to keep alive that spirit of kindliness and faith which is the essence of civilisation. I am confident of your ultimate triumph for tlie ideals of justice, kindness and brotherhood. Faith cannot die. These highest human ideals will be defended and maintained. In their victory the whole world stands to gain and the fi'tiit of it is peace."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1940, Page 7
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