CHURCH CONGRESS AND HUMAN SUFFERING
Sir,—Church congresses come and go; but, after all, the great difficulty, lightly touched upon, is to reconcile the idea of “one God and Father of all” with the problem of human and animal suffering. Leaving aside such palliatives as future compensation (“jam to-morrow”), is there any way of solving this difficulty without shutting one’s eyes to the horrors of the outside world? We have the long anguish of history, exemplified in the innocent victims of human brutality; we have the pointless lives of those born but to starve; we have war: a master has described it. “Slush and uproar of battles, the frozen deathspew of the slain, a shout of spear spikes baited with men’s bloodied guts.” How to reconcile these things with the “Jubilate Deo”? At times the bright assurance of dignitaries seems, to an outsider at least, a trifle unfeeling.—Yours, etc., BRABEUS. May 24, 1950.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26122, 26 May 1950, Page 5
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