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Alan Paton seems to side more with the church. Throughout the novel both sides of power and the church are shown with passion through the characters. However, the church is what seems to be lifting people more so than power and politics does. When Kumalo cannot find his son  in chapter  10 and is feeling down he relies  on God, this is shown through by  the verse that he stars to re-sight "Oh God, my God, do not Thou forsake me. Yea, though I walk though the valley of the shadow of death,  I shall fear no evil, if Thou art with me.."(pg.  94). Later when Kumalo finds out that his son has killed someone, he becomes devastated and again hearing God's  word from Msimangu about hope and God bringing people out of darkness(pg. 123) brings him out of his slump and gives him some hope for the future.