THE CHURCH AND REFORM.
Even though it bo true that the Church has often stoou in tile way of secular emancipation from very gross evils, it is none the less true that the Democracy has been guilty of greater follies; and when it conies to a final test the record of the Church in the field of social reform, and its achievements in stirring the public- conscience to take pity on the poor, the downtrodden, and the oppressed, has a brilliant history, besides which that of Parliaments and political parties flickers with a very feeble light. The only good effect Mr. Fisher’s address to the Presbyterian Assembly can have is to remind men and women that the less the Church has to do with political matters the better, and to make clearer than before the fundamental objections there are to attempt to bring it into that arena, of bitterness and strife.— “ Wellington Times.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2510, 25 May 1909, Page 6
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153THE CHURCH AND REFORM. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2510, 25 May 1909, Page 6
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