APPEAL FOR UNITY
LN DEFENCE OF CHRISTIAN CHURCH ADDRESS BY METHODIST PRESIDENT. SPREAD OF SUBVERSIVE TEACHING. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PAHIATUA, This Day. The Rev. L. B. Neale, of Dunedin, President of the Methodist Conference of New Zealand, speaking at a civic reception, said: “I believe that within the next fifty years, unless the Church draws together in a determined attack on insidious propaganda, the structural foundation of all that is dear to us will be blasted by subversive and atheistic philosophy.” He added that signs of Communistic teachings and other subversive propaganda were establishing themselves in New Zealand and that if this continued we would have a totalitarian regime. Speaking to farmers, Mr Neale said that unless they stood behind the flag of Jesus Christ they would be marching off their farms into concentration, camps. “For God’s sake,” he said, “go to church. I am no pessimist, but I am convinced that never in the history of New Zealand have we been faced with such a critical period.”
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19400910.2.29
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1940, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
168APPEAL FOR UNITY Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1940, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in