YOUTH AND THE CHOICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 212, 8 September 1927, Page 6

YOUTH AND THE CHOICE.

In reply to the Rev. 4. C Fu«*eH, I wouifl suggest to iiatn thai vicarious sufferituj if &, animal kingdom U <juit© apart fwnn thanr*«ctjt questioa, which concerns only the meal of sias against the metal law. transgresses the moral law at so bmw twinu thai It i« absurd to attempt to mtxmcut ike two thing*. Animals, according to Chratfcn dogma, have no soul*, and are incapab* 0 | sin or grace a« we understand t&cittTl 4o not care greatly whether the teachings of Jew* arc coupled with ifi» name or aot. But 1 cannot Me that Jesus' ethic ha* much in common with the preaching of the Chrktkti Churches. Their practice is e*ca aw* divorced from bis rale of living. Thi* » hap* the main cause of my iadiffcreaae. ltd for tat* I might be a Christian. As for your correspondent, "J.H.8.," who says that *«Jtn. oat Christ the world would he a dark, d»rk place, unimaginable to him/' 1 am cotrniolWl to point oat the obvious. The Uelleaic wofii! was aot lacking ia spirituality, and retckd t point of civilisation culturally, if twt ttacknirally, higher than oar*. The unpleasant «id« of the matter is that with an ethical eriteriou in froat of us that is (1 agree) the hkfau the world ha* yet seen, we lia ve failed to surpass the Greek* in spiritual attainment*, the reason being that our spiritual welfare ha« heea ia the hand* of the Christian Church, Therein lie« the gravamen of my chtrjK against it. Perhaps religion ha« a bigger aoid ia Auckland than I had imagined; my two critic* may derive *ome comfort from tie fact that no other young person ha« rushed to my assistance, YQIJTS.'