THE FALL.

Evening Star, Issue 22684, 25 June 1937, Page 14

THE FALL.

TO TUB EDITOR, Sir, —In your issue of last Saturday you report a sermon by the Rev. D. 0. Herron iu which he says certain things that .1 feel called upon to criticise. He contends that “ Humanity without the help of Christ is lame,” but it needs a healer to restore it from a crippled condition into which it has had a “ fall.” Mr Herron- goes to some trouble to explain that by “fall” he simply means that there is a possibility of a higher condition, and says: “ . . . . humanity has a right to be displeased with tho man who says there has been no fall. His statement implies that there are no higher possibilities for mankind —that the lame must continue to walk with a limp.” Such an interpretation of the historic Christian creed calls for candid condemnation. A fall is a fall—from a higher to a lower condition. And to deny that such a fall occurred, as is stated in the creed of Mr Herron’s own church, and which he professed to believe and uphold, is most emphatically not to imply “ that there are no higher possibilities for mankind.” It is the very ones who do deny the historic truth of the Christian doctrine of the fall who do maintain that there are higher possibilities for man. Mr Herron’s statement is an unworthy slander of an increasingly large humanitarian section of the world, and a false interpretation of a Christian creed.—l am, stc.. Peoeanum Vulcus. June 23. [This letter has been curtailed.— Ed. E.S.]