THE UNJUST GOD OF DR TORREY.

Evening Star, Issue 11693, 26 September 1902, Page 4

THE UNJUST GOD OF DR TORREY.

TO THE ESITOK .. Sir, —I. notice in one of your locals yesterday that Dr Torrey states: “If a person, no matter what sins be has committed, gets ‘saved’ by the Lord Jesus Christ he will start in life fresh with a sheet equal to the most upright person”; or words to this effect. I have not your paper before me. It foTows from this that if two sinners, say Brown and Jones, are walking along the street, and Jones kills Brown, Brown will go to well, I will not say where. Jones, however, has the opportunity to go and get “saved.” Suppose Jones gets “ saved,” os Dr Torrey and such like call it, wbat great luck for him, and what bad luck for Brown. Going to Dr Torrey’s Heaven or the other place is largely a matter of chance.. My idea of a Supreme Being. is that He will eliminate chance./ Then Dr Torrey also states that a person to go to Heaven most believe in Jesus Christ, and that He is tbe Son of God. This is a bit hard on the person that is perfectly upright, but does not believe that Dr Torrey’s Lord Jesus Christ was .any more than mortal. I cannot believe that any just and reasonable per.-on believes or hopes tbat an upright man or woman' has no chance of going to this future Heaven unless they believe that Jesus Christ was immortal.

My idea is that the basis of a good religion is good moral laws and beliefs; not the belief in a particular form of any Supreme Being. And that this is a logical id«i will be apparent to anyone if he will but suppose any religion with good moral beliefs and laws. Take away the Supreme Being, and you have the good moral laws and beliefs left —a good foundaton. Take away the good moral laws and beliefs, and you have simply a Supreme Being—not a sufficient foundation. It follows that the foundation of any good religion is the moral laws and beliefs of that religion, and not the particular Supreme B.ing.—-I am, etc., A Bbukver in Just Supreme Being. September 26.