DOCTRINE OF SIN.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19251, 5 March 1928, Page 8

DOCTRINE OF SIN.

HAS MODERN VIEW CHANGED ? " '0 wretched man am I, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?' was the heart-cry of St. Paul, but we seem to be living in a different world when we read the famous words of Sir Oliver- Lodge, 'As a matter of fact, the higher man of to-day is not worrying about his sins at all, still less about their punishment; his mission, if he is good for anything, is to bo up and doing.'" This was the comparison made of the old and the mw view of sin by his Lordship Bishop West-Watson when preaching at the Cathedral last night. His Lordship said that there was a certain splendid ring of self-forgetful-ncss and service about Sir Oliver's words which must attract many to whom the cry of St. Paul seemed the outburst of an abnormal, morbid conscience. Had not St. Paul, after all, the true message for the " present day? The change in regard to the view of sin had come about suddenly, for our grandparents and even our parents in many cases found St. Paul's views presenting no difficulty. The cause of the change was the researches of science into the origin of man. St. Paid found two things, the universality ? t-\ ten ?. e " c y t0 sin and actual sin, *P a man down in spite of his better self. There were found the same problems to-day. \\hy was it easier to do wrong than right? continued the Bishop. Why did parents see with such pain their own weaknesses and failings coming out " , ? lldre ,* ? What was this who was responsible for it? To a man in St. Paul's day f WaS y one answer , to say it r parents,' Adam and showed th fl f 6l^° nginal Bin> St - Paul the whnlfi r ° ne man cou ld infect cleaßße it. <»»>«, could

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