THE EVOLUTIONS OF OUR RELIGION.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 288, 9 June 1909, Page 6

THE EVOLUTIONS OF OUR RELIGION.

(To the Editor.) ~ Sir, — I suppose lam entitled to put our in the heading as long as the coins of the realm have FJD. and D.G. on their face. Henry VIII. started these and was the Fidei Defensor — no matter how he ranks morally among kings. We see the papers full of meetings of bishops from all parts of the kingdom, and schemes in New Zealand for creating an. archbishopric in "Wellington, and if I ask "Watchman, what of the night?" the answer would be the same as the poor old I chief engineer gave to his captain at the werck of the Penguin, "Go tell the master she is going down as fast us she can." The Church does not need grand scholars with half the alphabet after their names. What lias become of the class the original disciples were . composed of ? The class mentioned in James 2c. Did

hot Christ say, "It were, better for anyone slighting these that a millstone- were hung about their necks ? —Ist Matt. 18c. sv. Tho class, wo are told, it is so hopeless to expect to pass "through the eye of a needle!' have had far too much to do with the Church of England. The result was prophesied ages ago, "Because iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold." — Daniel 4c, 27v. Wo see a new Church forming in the midst of us, starting on simple and original ways, and I am reminded of tho Psalm .winch, says "Though ye have lien among the pots yet shall your wings be as the- wings of a dove.'.' The dove was described Matt. 3c 16 v, as the one gives -comfort, assurance, Galatians 5c 22v. "Love, joy, peace." The spirit of truth, St. John 14c 17v. —I am, etc., MATTHEW ISc.