NEW SOCIAL ORDER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1941, Page 6

NEW SOCIAL ORDER

ISSUE BETWEEN MEN AND NATIONS GREAT POWER OF ORGANISED . CHRISTIANITY. ADDRESS AT ROTARY CLUB. “Men and women in every country are agreed that a new social order must come. The issue between men and nations seems to be falling naturally into two broad phases typified by the conception of Hitler on the one hand and Christ on the other." said Mr. J. D. McMillan, of Wellington, at the weekly meeting of the Masterton Rotary Club held at the Y.M.C.A. rooms this afternoon. Mr. McMillan's address was entitled “Unity and the Social Order.” The president, Mr. P. F. Fagan, presided over a good attendance of members.

Mr. McMillan pointed out that there had been a great deal of praying and preaching and' talk of freedom, but no clear, strong, unified purpose had been reached by Christ's organisation in defining its new order. As had already been seen, a war could be won but the peace lost.

Mr. McMillan stated that he considered the idea of unity in God expressed in a social order operated in accordance with the principles based on the idea of brotherhood, the most powerful 'social idea ever placed before mankind. He proceeded to outline the establishment, objectives and work of the Economic Research Association. The association was established by a group of laymen, and its objectives were, brcadlv speaking: (1) Definition of the eternal laws as they related to governmental forms and economic rules; (2) right economic relations between man and man within a free economic organism conceived in terms of universal brotherhood; (3) right economic and political relations between nation and nation in a concord of free nations conceived in terms of universal brotherhood; (4) methods of organisation cf positive forms of Christianity in building according to the law. Mr. McMillan elaborated on the points mentioned, and said the association had | made out a case which it was hoped would subsequently become the foundation of a crusade unifying all organisations of goodwill. Leadership should emerge from the greatest organisation on earth —organised Christianity. On the motion of Mr E. J. Brown the speaker was accorded a hearty vote of thanks for his thought provoking address.

Visitors present, were Mr W. H. Preston, of the Wellington Rotary Club. Warrant Officer W. L. Free. D.C.M.. past president of the Masterton Rotary Club, and Mr J. McGregor. Masterton.