CORRESPONDENCE

Southland Times, Issue 20015, 1 November 1926, Page 8

CORRESPONDENCE

Letters must be written in ink and on one side of the paper. Unless a signature, not necessarily for publication, accompanies a letter as a guarantee of good faith It will not be considered. An asterisk attached to the signature to a published letter denotes thaX some portion baa been deleted by the Editor, a right which is exercised in questions of public policy, libel, good taste and fair play. EVOLUTION AND THE CREATOR. To the Editor. Sir, —To me it would be somewhat amusing were it not so tragical, to see letters like Lewis Matheson’s and friend Niederer’s. A tragedy in that they both seem to think that a believer in Evolution must necessarily be opposed to Christianity, as if the Creator could not make this world—indeed, this solar system in His own particular way. I have much sympathy with friend Niederer as he seems to have quite solid ideas on evolution; but from his letters I gather that he has omitted, what should be the most essential part, viz.—the evolution of the spirit or soul, as there has been just, as truly (and is still going on) an evolution of spirit as of form. Nor are these facte opposed to the teaching of the Bible but rather tend to explain much, in that good book tha| otherwise is impossible of satisfactory explanation to the cfiscrirainating inquirer. Even to the tyro in astronomy it must appear evident that behind the millions of other systems (our solar system being one, and an insignificant one) there must be a Creator, a great Creator, and not the little God many Christians would have one believe in, tinged with jealousy and vindictiveness. Man does not harbor such feelings to the worms that litter the footpath. Ijogically too, these other systems must be the supporters of life in some form and at some stage of evolution. —I am, etc., B.J.E. SHOOTING CANTERBURY CLAY-BIRD CHAMPIONSHIP. Ashburton, October 30. The first competition for the Canterbury clay-bird championship was fired to-day. H. Grennell, W. J. Robertson, R. Mcllwrick, A. Graham and N. B. Morrow got 20 out of 21 birds, dividing the prize-money, Grannell winning the medal with 20 birds in the shoot-off. A sweepstake of £2O resulted in T. S. Harrison, W. J. Robertson and I. Dempsey tieing with a possible 16 and dividing the prize-money.