NEW WORLD ORDER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1942, Page 2

NEW WORLD ORDER

BISHOP’S ADDRESS TO LABOUR CONFERENCE. POSITION OF THE CHURCH. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. ‘•The Churches can see that there is now an encl of one civilisation and they arc concerned that the now world order which will follow should be guided by fundamental principles of which the Church is the last stronghold. They must not be used as the stalking-horse for any one political parly, but they will not suffer regimentation in their effort to place the Church at the heart of the body politic and will not stand any opposition either from a materialistic capitalism or a materialistic Marxism,” said the Rt Rev H. St Barbe Holland. Bishop of Wellington, in addressing the conference of the New Zealand Labour Party in Wellington yesterday afternoon. The address, which was greeted with loud applause, was the first by a Church leader to be delivered to the conference.

‘Tf Hitler could conquer God the world would be his. That the Nazis realise this is shown by the efforts they have made to crush Christianity and also by the brave opposition of Roman Catholic and Protestant loaders in Germany and Norway.” continued the bishop, in stressing the need for a radical change in national outlook. The tragic barbarism in which the world was enveloped was largely the result of the atheistic outlook which had become general. The spirit of community which was the only hope for peace had never been created. In the campaign for a Christian Order no blue-print was offered for a new world, but the Churches were concerned to see that the new civilisation conformed to the Christian principles of freedom and justice. Emphasis was laid on the points' agreed on by the Churches of Great Britain as necessary for the preservation of these principles; the abolition of social inequalities, equal opportunities in education for every child, the preservation of the family as the social unit, and security of employment.