STREET PREACHING.

Evening Star, Issue 19919, 16 July 1928, Page 10

STREET PREACHING.

TO the bwitor Sir, —Surely the intimation of “ M.” that the same problems facing the Founder confront the sponsors of to- ! day strikes anything but a confident nolo on his part for Christianity. It mis but natural, that Christ did most of his preaching in the open for seeking converts to a new religion—an 'untried cult. Ho needs must go.forth and attract men from tho existing beliefs, but after two thousand years ; during which time tho faith has suffered no opposition till recently, it should no longer need to seek; nor would that 1 necessity exist did Christianity actually ' express tho Christ teaching. ,“ Ho talked to thorn of spiritual tilings,” writes “ M.”—“ spiritual . things,” marie you, and it is spiritual things which alono can draw man to it religion. Lacking that appeal, revealing not that truth which is spirit, a religion will bo moribund bo it preached in temple or alley. I hear a chair longing voice cry: “ You have conveyed all you should not have conveyed, and kept unconveyed that you should have conveyed; there is now no power in you.” v The, “power” lies in liberating and conveying to man those, spiritual truths which “ awaken the divine and compel men to come into tho Presence.” There is but one sect attempting to Hi - orate the power and to convoy tho truths of God in this age, so urgently needful of it, and that sect, of courageous souls finds its most bitter opponents in tho conlesscd Christians,. If I have strayed from tho main theme of debate it has been to stress the point that the reanimation of | Christianity cannot bo found in offering old dogmas through tho activity ! of tho street preacher, but in conveying those spiritual truths which will draw man to wheresoever they be proclaimed. That tho rightful place for such revelations is a temple befitting to tho Presence must be acknowledged by all those who have tho reanimatioii of Christianity at heart. —1 am, etc., R.M. July 11.