CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 64, 17 March 1930, Page 19

CORRESPONDENCE.

A PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE. While thanking your - correspondent, 8.5., for his letter on the alleged saying of Christ: "Unto him -who hath," etc., I must confess that it does not clarify the passage 'to any appreciable extent. It may be that the power is given unto some to ; understand the mystery of these things, and that I am one of those who are without —"That seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins be forgiven them." To a Rationalist it is all very confusing, which" is only in* | qreased by the fact that Christians - differ so much among themselves as .to what some passages of Scripture really mean. This is somewhat surprising when all the various Christian churches claim j that the Bible is a Divinely inspired and| infallible Book. "It seems to" me as if all Christian sects read into it and out of it just what suits their particular tenets. I would like "Bible Student" to understand that although now over three score years and ten I have been and still am an earnest seeker after truth, and knowing that on the long, long path that j leads to it there is no terminus, perhaps J T read out of a much larger book—one of ( which the first chapter has never been written and in which the word "Finis" has no place. Like Ralph Waldo Emerson I have learnt to "trust the perfection of the universe, to be aware that whatever curiosity the order of things have awakened in the mind of man the order of things can and will surely satisfy." It gives to him who hath and also to who hath not, and taketh away from no man but error and superstition. It is not in the power of any man to cajole the everlasting justice and make iniquity prosper. We all stand before the world as witnesses of the solemn warning that "whatsoever a man soweth that also shall he reap." That sin is wedded to misery and it is not possible for any man to put them asunder. I would entreat "Bible Student" and other Christians "to have many windows to the soul -that all the glory of the universe may beautify it, and that not the narrow pane of one poor creed can catch the radiant rays that flow from countless sources; to tear away the blinds of superstition and let the light pour through fair windows, broad as truth itself and high as Heaven." Knowing that a polemical discussion is not suitable for the columns of a daily newspaper, and that possibly it is only in the letter and not in the spirit of the thing that I differ from what I am pleased to call my Christian friends, this will be my last contribution on the subject. H. T. HENDERSON.