The Peace-makers
A friend of mine who was at the Labour Party Conference last week tells me that the Metho- dist Church scored heavily among connoisseurs of sly humour. Having this year wrested from the established Church the right of conducting the inaugural service of the Conference, the Metho- dists improved the occasion by giving Mr. Wil- son the parable of the Unjust Steward to read as the lesson, which he did with brave appearance of relish. When the Leader had finished, the Minister then proceeded to preach a strongly anti-CND sermon on the text, 'Blessed are the peace-makers.' His eloquent message was that peace-making is the positive activity of relieving the hunger, disease and inequalities of the world, an activity to which the mere destruction of weapons is irrelevant. I wonder how many of his audience agreed.
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