TURNING TO RELIGION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 December 1941, Page 2

TURNING TO RELIGION

WAR AT ROOT A MORAL PROBLEM. “There cannot be an economic solution of what is at root a moral problem, and in their hearts most ordinary people know it,” said Canon S. J. Marriott, of Westminster Abbey, in a speech to the Trades Union Club. “They are fighting for man’s right to be man —not a mere cog in the State machinery, or an ‘habitue’ of the cinema and the greyhound track; but a man for whom the making of a human world would mean more than the mere making of money for himself. Already this war has proved that in the younger generation of England there is a capacity for adventure, sacrifice and heroism which can transform the life of the nation in the right direction as surely as Etitler has transformed the life of Germany in the wrong. Already there are signs of a turning to religion, a vague yearning for spiritual values. If it can become articulate, the soul of Britain will become flooded with new life.”