CORRESPONDENCE THE DIVINE LAW.

Evening Star, Issue 22228, 4 January 1936, Page 11

CORRESPONDENCE

THE DIVINE LAW.

. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Writing under the above heading your correspondent, “ Give and Receive,” appears to be in agreement with the main contention of my previous letter—namely, that poverty should and could be abolished by conforming to the Divine Law. That the giving of the crumbs of charity entitles anyone to accumulate more than he requires is surely a strange costly to follow Christ, and it involves sacrifice. Merely to give a little out of an abundance of material blessings is a poor recognition of God’s gifts to us, and to accept further material blessings as a reward for giving is to have a poor conception of the God does not reward His servants by giving a license to exploit their fellow men. Our gifts to God must be of a higher order than petty cash. Likewise His rewards are spiritual rather than mere earthly goods. Christ was sorry for the rich, and Christ’s viewpoint is correct. A man who accumulates to himself other people’s, goods is to be pitied. The day is passing in which he was honoured and praised for throwing back crumbs of charity to the people he had possibly exploited. In conclusion I must assure Give and Receive” that I am not'airing personal grievances or stigmatising as greedy any reader. I leave it to those whom the cap fits to wear it. I appeal to Christians firstly because they could, if awakened, end the present chaos by the simple application of Christian teaching. If Christians would give themselves to the task of abolishing poverty instead of throwing crumbs to the poor, progress would be made. Let us by all means give, and keep on giving, not halting* to take_ back more than we gave. Surely it is sufficient reward to serve under the banner of Christ in the fight against human poverty and misery and to help to bring in the kingdom or joy and peace, F, 6,' A* Hjssbxko* ( JAmmrj 4b