NEWS from one hundred years ago: THE NEED FOR A REVOLUTION

The Otago Daily Times, one of the leading newspapers behind the Reform Party, says in its editorial today that the postwar world faces a choice between a collapsing old economic, social and political order and two forms of revolution. The first of those revolutions is ‘a Bolshevist form founded on hate, revenge, and covetousness.’ The other is a form based on ‘supreme faith in God.’ Christians must step up. They must stop the class war. They must bind in love the capitalists and the working class. They must strive for a revolution in which Christian principles will come to reign in the economy, in politics and in society. ‘In other words the “choice before us” to-day is either to give Christianity a trial or to see civilisation rush headlong over the precipice and dash itself to pieces on the jagged rocks beneath.’ A good many churches, however, are strongly linked to the rich and powerful - above all the Anglican church.
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Otago Daily Times, 01 October 1920