THE BIBLE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21935, 19 October 1934, Page 15

THE BIBLE

Sir, —The last contribution of "Debruno" still leaves the subject in the controversial stage. For illustrative purposes I likened the Bible to a mine, the wealth of which was only determinable by exploitation. I Expressed indifference to the external appearance of the Book just as one is indifferent to the physical features of country enveloping rich gold and silver-carrying lodes. Truth seekers have not insisted upon a rearrangement of context for precisely the same reason as those engaged in winning precious metals are unconcerned whether the veins bear north, south, east or west. Elaborate designs worked into the binding will not impel interest in the siibject of any publication, although it might win for it a more prominent place among household effects than that often allocated to the Bible. When one reads of churchmen questioning the fundamentals of the faith they are pledged to uphold and casting shadows of academic doubt upon the spiritually discernable and acceptable truth for which men and women have suffered torture and death, one becomes suspicious of the motive actuating this reconstructive agitation. Nothing, as yet, has fallen from "Debruno's" pen calculated to remove this feeling of non-confidence. G. V. Hooper.