PLEA FOR MODERATION

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 62, 15 March 1927, Page 8

PLEA FOR MODERATION

(To tea Editor.) rpnn/rs^ Saturday's issue included a ri?nr\i,° nth? Proceedines of the Methodist wh?A h reMe iheM at Auckland, at ? ter d mo^ leSenSt ?wk of ™ Stl<? nature * and the total givenihS^viU^ 01"15 6VidenCe or fact 3 holHhnn i 1 -n-3'?elf am not a da"cer and those fmv nel I9r daucers (ou the l»s™ I'ogy, fear of excitement of the na^iona in the intimacy of the dance, appears to be a c ase o f bel ..^ where no fea? ed^n hke capacity by the young Regarding the Rev. Mr. Ryan's remark "What rTT" IPPeter1P Peter,eter on the KSeto™ unclean.'? * deanSed call not thai

A thoughtful study of the Scriptures on eSs^Saftk^^^ti of man" might convince the rev Een Ue. ?i?£ 1° .beiu eve ln the reality of anythe n >.°W» St d«Pt»s of human passion. Ims modernism," as it is called >« not modern; it is as old as mankind and is the peculiar weapon of the devil who formfrVff t0 l e" *■* head iv different iorras in different periods of history the present generation being visited with' Ihl «,!? co,nc, lu<?e, I would record mv belief that what is needed in the Christian & h .M f ..» moderil outlook wVthout Ck oT$ A '^^on-Tthat is to say.to n^nit t God-given JO ys of modern humanity through the eyes of the Christ ber who 'ft Within «>e f°M a great X ber who like myself are, despite earnest prayer and study of the Bible, unable to find therein a condemnation of the love *L ? aU?Jr and J joy ,' nor an °ffen<* in the simple joys and pleasures of the young-, l am, etc., b*

Lyttelton, 13th March. E-H-p-M-