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Be optimistic Christians, Christians are too pessimistic, according to Glasgow's Archbishop Thomas Winning who has been invited to Perth for the combined Churches' celebration of WAY 79. "There is a spirit of defeatism because we do not reflect sufficiently on the
world. "We
will always be disillusioned
says Scots'
"I don't think a Christian any right to be depressed or to be a pessimist.
has
"I personally am full of for the future, but that kind of hope is not born of complacency. "It is born of the fact hope
Archbishop
university students, not generalise about youth. joining this campaign. Looking hack to his own "In reaction to the creep- young days, he says that ing paralysis of divorce we the young people of those have the growth of movedays were lacking in initiments such as Marriage En- ative and were not expected counter which has discov- to be leaders. ered a vast, new spiirtual "Nowadays we have dimension to ordinary married life, and yet it is only young people who will champion causes, who will LONG TIME in its infancy. "We Christians always "There is the loss of the be in the vanguard of antitake a long time to catch sense of God yet we have abortion rallies, who will or_ up to the world in its think- this rising Charismatic ganise camps for handiing. Movement, people finding capped children and work in "Where can the Gospel great consolation in the hospitals at Lourdes," he said. latch on to the needs of prayer." "The starry-eyed youth man?" is Archbishop Winning's formula for being an PRAYER STILL WANTED Archbishop Winning optimistic Christian in toquoted a recent Gallup day's world, He cites the anti-abortion Poll that he commission.] campaign that he says, has in Glasgow v,hich showed that although people had been growing in strength. "Positive and unexagger- given up the esternal prat. ated anti -abortion propa- tice of their faith they were ganda has made people re- still attached to prayer. flect who never felt the The survey proved, he need to reflect about the said, that if parents were sanctity of life, and that in- good in their faith, then cludes violence," he said. the children were good, too. "It is great to see young Archbishop Winning does sometimes forget that the work of the conversion of the world is the Holy Spirit's task and we are only his instruments. "The more aware we are of God in our own lives, the more effective will we be as the mouth piece of God.
when he sees the double standards of his elders.
people,
when you are up against it adversity brings the best out of you.
"Look at the Church in Poland; how dynamic it is, yet how difficult it is to live under a totalitarian regime,
"My only fear is that a soft society will produce soft Christians. "We are 'signs of contradiction' and that is the lifeblood of the Christian faith. "There are a lot of positive signs today that the Nazarene is not dead at all."
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Archbishop Thomas WinThe Christian participaProminent common4pm: GUILDFORD, Law churchmen ning of Glasgow is the lion in WAY 79 concludes Davies Centre, Guildford United Kingdom link benext Sunday July with a Grammar School. Dr D. P. hove been specially inthe Christians of WA spectacular 90 minute pre- Niles. vited to Perth for the tween and the generations of pio- sentation of witness and 7pm VICTORIA PARK, WAY 79 Combined neer, that came from the worship in the Perth EnterKent Street High School, Churches' Celebration United Kingdom. tainment Centre. Archbishop E. Scott. that gets under way 7pm: FREMANTLE, Anglican Primate of Canthis week with country John Curtin High School, ada, Archbishop Edward and regional metro- Scott, is the link with the Archbishop T. Winning. Country politan rallies. other former British colonTHURSDAY, June 28,
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