CHRISTIANITY AND THE CRISIS

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20978, 5 October 1933, Page 14

CHRISTIANITY AND THE CRISIS

TO TUB EDITOR Off THE PRESS. Sir, —A Sunday school picture shows Abraham and Isaac toiling up a hill, Abraham carrying the knife and Isaac the sticks. Isaac becomes curious about the victim and Father Abraham replies: "Jehovah Jireh," and lo! there was the ram caught by the horns. The faithless world has never had faith in,the "Jehovah Jireh" promise. Father Abraham was told to increase and multiply (his wife does not seem to have- been, consulted) and his descendants would become as numerous as the herrings in the sea; was it? Fifty years ago Malthus created a scare about population overtaking food. To-day we are told of the herring-like fecundity of the Japs with their annual crop of 2,100,000 babies. A scientist says that "more food can be got from an' acre of sea water than from an acre of land. A statistician shows graphs of the price of wheat and the marriage rate, and the fluctuations correspond. I found Mr Armstrong's enclosure interesting reading and I thank him and you for it; also I was glad to see Mr Shand alongside of him helping us to understand the Douglas plan, and the nature of the gap between production and consumption. I remember Professor Shelley telling the Workers' Educational Association how work was organised and.the workers classified in the war factories; how brains were commandeered for the purpose. So to-day, brains influenced by thoughts projected from higher planes than this will find a way "out.' "We" are placed "here" to work with our hands and our brains and to pray for guidance.—Yours, etc., PETER TROLOVE. October 4, 1933.