ANCIENT FAITH.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20756, 17 January 1933, Page 12

ANCIENT FAITH.

TO THF. ? DtTOR OF THE TRESS. fiir, —This heading in The Pans*of Saturday at once attracted my attention. I see the story was told by our charming visitor to a meeting of AngloCatholics, who are amusedly regarded by some aB not being fish nor even goo.l red herring. It seemed to me that th« point &f the story was how-fatally easy it is for institutions to become backwaters of thought in any direction, t first heard this idea; promulgated by Professor Shelley in a lecture some years ago to the Workers' Educational Association. Ido not know whether he has had to recant under pressure, like Gallileo, but nothing has ousted the idea from my mind. It is only too true that it is possible to build mental walls of prejudice and suspicion that completely shut us. in in th&.he'-e and the hereafter. The other day I was trying to indued. a lady to adopt a better method of 'doing* that, three- times -daily prosaic job of washing up the dishes. The reply J got was this: "I have used this tray for 23 years and I don't think I could change." "But look, mother," said the daughter, "how dry the tea towel keeps this way." We "goers" who want to change things should thank God that Death is a "verra busy body," as a Scots lady apologist remarket} about the devil. Death, as is sometimes represented as Father Time with his scythe, removes us in generations. I was glad to see that Dame Sybil Tegards George Bernard Shaw as a "religious man." My superficial opinion of him is that he would be only too pleased to allow himself to be made a stepping stone for the future generation to advance to better conditions.— Yours, etc., •

PETEB TROLOVE January 16, 1933.