THE WRITING ON THE WALL
Sir—“ Another Rationalist's” sturdy independence of spirit is all to the good; but carried to excess it condemns him to death—in fact, it prohibits him from being born. He has had to accept his mother’s sacrifice, in order to be in this world at all. He has required the constant sacrifice of time, money. oeace of mind, and leisure of his parents, who had the care of him in his earliest years. And now. like the rest of us, he is compelled to benefit by the sacrifice of multitudes who are in the firing line. His letter pretends to noble sentiments; but no one is so utterly condemned by them as he. Neither does he show any signs of knowing even the first principles of the Atonement, which he heedlessly attacks. If “Another Rationalist” honestly wants to learn. I shall be happy to meet him and discuss some elements of the Atonement with him.—Yours, etc., I. L. RICHARDS. St. Luke's Vicarage, March 16, 1942.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23589, 17 March 1942, Page 7
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