EASTER CALL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1942, Page 3

EASTER CALL

DR. TEMPLE BROADCASTS. NEED OF STEADFAST COURAGE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 5. Dr. Temple, Archbishop-designate of Canterbury, in a broadcast message today said: “At no time has the trumpet call of Easter sounded with a clearer note than today. “In our world we have tribulations. Our fellow countrymen, our friends, brothers, husbands and sons are struggling at many places scattered over the earth in a conflict for a cause which we know to be in line with the purpose of God. They are fighting foes who are alert, skilful, brave, well-equipped and often cruel. Because we had not belived so great an evil would again be let loose upon the world, they aie often less well supplied than the enemy with the instruments of war. “So we have to bear heavy news of loss in territory and in lives which are often dearer than our own, and we cannot tell how long the period of bad things must last. Yet, through it all, the Christian has no ultimate anxiety. Through pain and sorrow; failure and death, loss and defeat, God can bring a good cause victory for those who trust in Him. “What is our prayer to be at a time like this .either for our friends or for ourselves? Is it that they or we may be spared suffering and that we all may meet again in peace? We cannot help hoping, and there is nothing wrong in such a hope, so we quite properly present it to God. “But that must not be our chief prayer. Not ‘Keep us safe,’ but “Keep us steadfast and brave.’ Not ‘Spare us suffering,’ but ‘Make us ready to suffer whatever is needed, that our cause may triumph.’ ”