The following extract from a message delivered in 1941, as indicated will to some extent explain why T.T. Shields felt called upon to take his message into areas that were considered to be political and why he resisted the inroads of Roman Catholicism.

Spiritual and moral issues could not be divorced from these matters in his estimation. He was sought out by a man of the caliber of R. B. Bennett, a former Prime Minister of Canada, and others from various walks of life.