DUTY OF CHURCHMEN

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20906, 11 September 1939, Page 6

DUTY OF CHURCHMEN

HUMANITARIAN PRINCIPLES FIRST AID CLASSES During the oourse of his sermon last night In St. Peter's Cathedral the Dean of Hamilton, the Very Rev. T. P. VVeatherhog, said that In his opinion church people should take the lead in humanitarian principles. It was up to the people to do what they could to alleviate distress and sufferineThe Dean suggested that classes should be formed for home nursing and llrst aid, and held every Wednesday night. iHe also suggested that the church people, by subscription, should provide either a hospital-trailer or an ambulance. After the service several subscriptions were ottered by members of the congregation. LIMIT REACHED CONSPIRATORS AGAINST PEACE METHODIST GHURCH ATTITUDE •• There comes a limit," says the New Zealand Methodist Times, in editorial comment on the international system, " to tile license exercised by international gangsters and bullies, and that limit has been reached in the case of Herr Hitler and his fellowconspiralors agaiust world peace. It is quite evident that ever since the emergence of the problem of Poland the Intention of the German Chancellor has been the swallowing up of the Middle European State, with its 32 millions of population, on the ostensible ground that the comparatively small minority of Germans in the nation clamour for inclusion in the German Reich." " A halt had to be called," the article continues, " to the houndless ambitions of the Fuehrer, aiming at world hegemony, and hence it is that Britain and France were compelled to rally to the help of Poland. The forces .of lawlessness cannot be allowed unhindered sway. And that is why the dogs of war are baying again so savagely in Europe. Force* of Rightoou*nou “ What the end will be no one can tell . . . but the propects are of the gravest. We can only pray success for the forces of righteousness, that Cod will over-rule all the working of the wratn of man, and that from it all may come the accomplishment of Ills holy will." That Mr Chamberlain and Lord Halifax did their utmost for the preservation of peace, and the settlement of the Polish problem by methods of regotiation, is ; a further expression of opinion in tire article, which states: " The palienee of Poland under incessant and deliberate provocation was, we think, remarkable."