THE CHURCH'S ENIGMAS AND HUMAN SOCIETY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 293, 30 August 1918, Page 6

THE CHURCH'S ENIGMAS AND HUMAN SOCIETY

Sir,—The reason that "Human Society, instead of getting redeemed, is exterminating'itself by means off o"ory conceivable method of racial suicide and murder"—as correctly stated by Mr. H M. B. Marshall—is not far to seek, ioi - human sooiety rejects the only possible Redeemer, the Lord Jesus (jurist. It is only through Him that true b'otherliood can come. "Brotherhoods" founded upon the sands of humnn society ,and built up with a theology which dishonour Jesus Christ by omitting the foundation principles of His doetrino have, involved the world in disaster. Truly, the Christian Church h to be the nucleus ofthc redeemed society, but that "Christian church" will not be the "Church" us we know it to-day. No, Sir, the Church will ho built' upon that Rock, which is Christ, as sot forth by St. Paul in Ephesiajis v. X\) doubt, if Paul were preaching today he would choose ifor his text the words: "To the unknown Christ," for Clijist is almost a "back number" in twentieth-, century theology (largely made in Gormany), as anyone reading Romans xii will readily see; in fact, you only need to road verses J 7-19. 'J he theological basis which tho modern Church has- given to human society is very different to that which Jesus .Christ gave to His Church, for 10-day scarcely any attempt- is made to put His precepts into practice. Mr, Marshall says that: "In the meantime we must all try to be satisfied with a Sphinx-like yes-no reply to the t'mev.orr. enigmas which perplexed the minds-or all well-intentioned philosophers, heathen and Christian, lcrg ;!go." That is so, provided we continue to accept as gospel truths the 'v-'ords of men, which for the most part are as clear as mud.—l am, etc., JOHN PLOWMAN.