"MAN AND HIS WORLD"

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1944, Page 3

"MAN AND HIS WORLD"

BISHGP LISTON'S COMMENT | O.C. AUCKLAND, This Day. Further reference to "Man and His World," by Mainwaring, was made by Bishop Lis ton in the course of an address delivered at Waihi yesterday. He said that, in view of two recent statements, his protest against the book, because of its contemptuous treatment of Christ, as God and of the Christian faith, and his warning to Christian parents to protect their children, might now be seen to be fully justified. ■ ;.■■■>• "If these things are done in the green wood, what shall be done in the dry?" asked Bishop Liston. "It would seem that the critics are satisfied with a book on the history of mankind that leaves out all mention of what is at; once the essential fact of all history, and the supreme glory of our human race—that Christ, namely, teacher and saviour of men, is divine!, as well as human, God as well as man—and a book that dismisses as a rumour the reality of . Christ's resurrection, although He gave it, and Christians have always, accepted it; as a complete and unanswerable proof of His divinity. "This thing is serious. If boys and girls at school were brought up on this book, and a book for good or ill impresses the mind, they could think of Christ as a man only. But Christ himself, over and over again, publicly claimed to be God. No such claim1 has ever been made by anyone else in history, and it is a claim of the most ! stupendous importance to us all. If it is true, we must accept Christ as God r listen to Him and obey. If it is false, then Christ was not even a good and great man, but was either a fool or a liar or a blasphemer. "This book finds so little truth in the claim that it does not record it at all. How could Christian parents allow their children to be offered this insult to theirsaci-ed, beliefs? But enqugh of ■ this book, unscientific through and through in its history, and wholly unsatisfactory for Christian and other believers."