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CIOMFORTI NAUGHT FOR YOUR YOUR COMFOKI' NAUGHT FOR 1913, in lkdford Bedfo~rd in in I~H3. Trevor Huddlest()n born in Huddieston was hol'll Lancing, and Christ, (Curcli, was educated educated ,It at L'lIldn!j and WltS Christ Churt:h, Oxford. Ceylon ,md India lic he w~s was and India After a period in Ceylon ordairied in 1937, bind in 19+3 1943 went to t SllUlh ot I\fl'ic~ fi~ ordained in 19:>7, nnd ill as Priest-in-Charge Pricst-in-Charj.ll~ of Community of of t1h0 the: (if thl~ the Commnunity Resurrection's ~!!ld staayed scay,:.! ResurrectIon's Mission Mi,"ion itl in SophbtUWll, Sopbiatown, and 1956. 11c T-le lias cluinphm ill ulltil1956. has been a.ichampitm in that country country uiitil of the black people there ever CVt~r since. bevaxne Prior of oif tIic In 1958 Trevor Huddiesron Huddleston hc~amc the Coniiinity of London House of the COllllllunity ()f the Resurrecction; in 1960 Bishop of in !'lI.\H 19614 Resurrection; in ()f Masiisi, Mas'lsi, and in Bishop Stepney. ~c Ile thcn chen b\~call1c hecanwe .Bishop Bisbojp> of Bishop. of Stepney. Mauritius Mauritius _lid the and ArchblslKlP Arcebbishop of the thec Pr()IIIIH:~ Provincc ui of cthe Indian Indian Ocean Oceun ill He returned in 1978. 1978. Fle returned, to England 1'ngland in in continued to to be :lctivc accive in inthe tie mU)l).\I~ struggle 1983 where he C()lItinued against apartheid, aparthecid.

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It~hl~ dignity nllt! and Ya which is infinite. conception neet~r SOllCh people of $oodwill IntentiON backwards Itl in their lIfJ'orts efforts to interpret N~don· Nation who bend over ovec bilckward~ co illterpr~t isIlIWJY$ always pnlaiblo., uilblei alist legisladon legislation in aII f~vo\trublc favourable light. It alis! It i3 I sUPIXlSe, suplxse, even in Inost "ich:ms vicious enactments itl the most enl\~tmen!s of the most m03t vicious goverllmell~ governments to see elcl'IIelltJ elements of pmentiul potential good. But ro $e
-------"-_._-----,--_..... RlMEME3RR returning from an d;\y day of committees I RIlMEMl.!!lIt remrninR one evening evening lenm Sophiatown to find on the Mi~si()n Mission in SophiatowIl and discussions to (he 011 the the patiently for six men waiting wailing p;uielltiy f()r my arrival. arrivlIl. This stoep a party pany of sill: which, very ofen, fear, 1 I wus familiar cuong!! eaough sight and one whkh, was an faruilia, aud \lUe oEren, I tear, daunting. It meant, found daunting, metlnr. always, alway" a problem. And problems prtlblems and before supper. supper, and with other at the end of aa heavy day lind lInd witb other of to-well, pri"1its priests nrc are only too conscious of business to attend Mcend co---well, nature m at sll~h such moments. their fatlen fallen human humllu natllre momems. But it was Ita winter winter winter in Johanncsllllrg Johannesburg at six dlOusand thousand feet with evening, and wimer fine, icy blasts from the minemine the wind blowing blowing the sand in linc, dumps, cheerless to say the tile least not know these dWl1ps, is cheerless lease of it. ie. 1I did !lot They sat men. Tbey gat there on IIa bench, bench. (Ia silent group, waiting to tell tell that bad had bCOUMhc brought them together. I asked them ine something something th,1t me in. Their story was an simple one and Th~ir storr ~imple ou", ;Uld very simply told. They lived in in Edith Street, just a c()uple couple of blocks ill one olle of 0 the yards ill other House, Like thousands away from the Mission Mission H')lIse. thll\1S,\!)(ls of odier Johannesburg Africans, their home was Johannesburg African,l. WllS a row of corrugated cOlTugated very rtr'o or on dtill fosmc Is.van~ e . h of tjidili1 hr 11crci bou mOlnent in the place h~r But st e:0 still a vicsiy oa rnllabours. theediiiJå r.trnt ~he 11ap pshe sets foot a che s w soy as still 11 necessi ty: as or much irl)!l (lr (he Aj{~ " the electric I uo ,eti o dfi c i c wilh stove: pru:t of. one's wny of lift!. I\utopc;m (()I1t:1Lt wt Afdcans in the city is limited entirely .C() this 1I1;(~tcNel'\'.lllt relationship, Every judgmcllt, every opinion Us to th~ fmme Otlos prohir Eo thepat inPa. on ista of" nlltive question," is oin fnctbMci:l upon341yea1,nd ir. The fe.lllite ftll home. ins aothed fo soethe ntw te 0his se family, th shis riito or~teli~n that1 poe m leC ofhosnghben the African-his imcf('sts· .. mr ," lmkl1owl1 to the European in J()h"lInesbur.'Il~\ tho)' ,Ire 10 rhll xad ethial prl ienist , r iexriby oinie1,5 tt) th et European in Paris, Arld so it is thar the c()!ojs;1I l'mhl I'll I ' " uof " to ite outh Arisa in< rixsumnlir, Th hspkl housing has naperi been and left UllfOtlched for ~) mlmy YC'lfS. AI"I with i fi ntenerete r.4 3 dofy the oo rcis thl\t problem nil rhe other social problems, which rch~"lu~ zoyru:eäri olen< inrean niesga unofen to tkcoEnroTha and ethical problems tOO, Ilre illCxtri~ably minilled. Mill IIrr uvlecrime clarming m välcquiu aEuopeandi al.At the s ti The" f hn unk.o.own to white South Aftka. list .. i~preob 1'\1!>Ii-IIt.! daily in the newspaper and re~,l with C()IlCttn liver the bredkf"", coffee ill Patktown. The il1Crellse in crimes of violen.:e: cite til the Bur nith Id it brings: u ev Afywhich ibtinsecurity hea are general sense of tbe thd(~ i\fltllM thngs bd.goiyI t he p r 1bld.mdsth hoe and family life of the u and cn'fria asSUluts thei .uarming spread a s'he ind of juvellile arer - ddin,!uell~Y"""(Iw\¢ h h it en 01C peneCtr JId about ocainer the 011
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sands who have been ixlflll1lld br~d therc: cherI' : the Norn, lind bred the, mWlli~ town 11 110t tior lind and miist m 1I.~t not their home. Aldll)UAh th~ir Inlltlllr is flw fouoflot be their holm Altlit)llgh their Inholår 13 tjle [01111" dation whole Soutli South Aitklu! them clation of the wholc African (nllltHlIY evom )111Y 1m" nilkl foc'l's f(llr
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.And my opinion, and one which is not only untx)punar And it is also Iny opinion. nnd ollly 1l0"ol'u\llr with those om~ide outside the Anglican (:hurch but rul«l also with those ",ith A!lglimo Church wirh thme in authority within it, that tie issue is flat not bCill1\ being htlJle~t!y hanesdy 11ICtilielltion that chtlt Ill\ all racial differences are carries with it the implication to but atc art It) creation, bllt act of (!.:-ntiOtl, ('0«( in His net not only willed by GX in sustllincd by Him to the end of time, rime. It further in" be sustained has be~t! been l1il no intermingling volves the uS5ul1Il,rion tbllt there bas illt~rl1lin&ling assumption that presum rn,eS thtouJlh CCl\mri~' without Io.s, l()~, and om! presumof races through the centuries fI[aa, roncon. ipjt faUll, interminhling must sin---since such ably Sill-·sillc~ .\ld1 intermingling mU't be ilml His mention of Hi. An It it m.keil makes no memiutl trary t() to rhe the Divine trury Divitle Will. Ana ami (and I a.m Son. In other 5011. tither wrods, wnr,\5, tho tllll view vlli!W here expressed ~ltJ:lreMro (lind and dUl'~n:'tlreil differenfces itit some moditficatins that, with IIOmit convinced thnt,wilh convinced mod.iticlUiolU lind

NAUUIU FOR YOUR YOU II COMFORT t!()MFORT NAUGHT 50 i mib. is the view of of most Dutch Reformed Reformed Church (hooch membewrs) m!1mbl~~kl\I':' baasskap, "Illult'! of ~t