DR. GILES AND THE CLERGY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19739, 12 September 1927, Page 12

DR. GILES AND THE CLERGY.

Sir,—One is loth tc strike a jarring in the chorus Of congratulations fceiitfef9 offered to Dr. Giles on the his S6th birthday, but<-many; read With regret-and surprise regarding clergy and ministers of ■ ■ Christian qjtoireh as quoted in the of the interview oi your representatm*!!! in your'issue of September 3. To sug t gest as be does that most of influenced by financial and material siderations is surely to reflect, in a unworthy of Dr. Giles' vaunted cath^^S licity and tolerance, upon a body whose sincerity and devotion are mg of all praise.- He wonders "how if deprived of their station as teacher*. V;^ , . . . would drift into secular One does not expect that kind ''of sinuation from one who makes the that Dr. Giles does' to follow strict!. the ~path of truth and charity. your readers will heartily dignified protest ol Bev. J. C. • jw against the suggestion that clergy anii I? ministers care mors for the fishes" and less fojf truth and duty does their venerable critic. There plenty of men throughout our Dominion i |?i who have spent years in university thaologicai college who may not be tag anything like the amount received-bt ' 'wage-earners' * of all sorts, who yet seorn from their inmost soul . gestion that with still less than have they would turn from their dev&lgll tion to the, high ideals of the ClwistSilSS ministry and the service of Christian tratbSJi to any "secular camps." God : ha*so made us that any man conscious would prefer starvation to such trayal of his highest visions and hii est convictions.. :-i ■ ■<■■■ ■■ i' ■■■ r , .. • ;W£