OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS
APPEAL TO THE CHURCHES (TO the Editor.) Sir—ln view of our King’s appeal for the prayers of the Empire on Palm Sunday, I now make an appeal to the churches, that it be made in such a way, that it -will not exclude the majority of his Majesty’s subjects. There are far more non-Christians amongst them than there are Christians. Thousands and thousands of his soldiers are Mahommedans and Hindus, and they are l now fighting beside our boys. They all acknowledge God as the Supreme Power. It is uncharitable to exclude them. Also the Chinese are our allies. Besides, we would have supreme authority for praying direct to God instead of through Jesus Christ, for when Jesus was asked how we should pray, His answer was to “Our Father which art in Heaven.” Let us do this. Besides our schools and universities are not fundamentally Christian, yet there are many within them no doubt who would like to join in our King’s appeal without feeling it was just a church prayer for Christians.—l am., etc., F.W. Eketahuna, March 21.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 March 1942, Page 4
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183OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 March 1942, Page 4
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