CAUSTIC OUTBURST.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19901, 2 June 1936, Page 10

CAUSTIC OUTBURST.

OHALLENGE I'o THE CHURCH. GAS, BAYONET—VVIIICH? “I am one or many who devoutly believe in Christ’s leaching and who believe He could be the world‘s saviour if the world would allow Him to save it." said Professor Murdoch at the Presbyterian Assembly at Perth. “But I cannot be a member of a church," he said. “i am one of those who would join a church if they could ilncl a Christian church to join." He had broadcast “a challenge [0 churches," but said that he did not intend to “nag" the church. llc had to ask, if the church had failed, as people said it had, \\hut other institution had not failed? liad Parliament. been such a shining success? , tied the League of Nations been a great success? What institution hull succeeded in living up to the ideals of its founders? ‘Hflll the League of Nations lived up ‘to the ideals of Woodrow Wilson or Lord Cecil? People in all 'parts of the world. looking with apprehension at the obvious triumph of brute force, were won—dering what a world in which that could still take place was likely to become. Brutal Savoury. “I see nothing in recent events to make me want to take back one word of my defence of Italy. “i believe conditions for natives in Abyssinia are far worse than they are in our half-caste camps. anurtiul travellers have described the ill'llLti :.uvngery oi" the trihes, the nihutnumt» and hostial cruelty and ‘ltt\t'|'_\ and üboniinul torturt-s \\tnch tilllu' II inn" some sort of ci‘vilisntiun \\tl.‘ t'l‘trtllitt [into that dark pnl't oi: tin“ \\ln‘ltl‘ t "i do not know from l"\|v"iit‘ll\"' lwhether it would he \t'r) tittialhnlit iv llizu'o a bayonet stint intn nnu up it. the. hill or \\holhcr il \\ouitt lu- innrt Idevilish to use poison ans. "\\'nr Ltid not seem so devilish when we could Pity others In light it." Poison Gas. “1 do not believe there is llllpl‘l‘ torture L‘fltlst‘d to tln- imnymuut ln' ‘poison gas than by nn-tlium'ul “unfit-6, tit is not the nature “I" the \\mpuu !llSL'l|. The British Set-retM-v my \\~_”, [said that it" \\ill"ltl't'(|k< "”I.”||‘l‘l' “I” be no slinl'tngt' nl‘ pnjs...‘ :,._._ I M“ lsnrr‘ you will all he lllctthud to hlun‘ that."