PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1077, 15 September 1930, Page 5

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

DEBT TO THE ANCIENTS To which is the world most indebted, Greek philosophy or Christianity? This was the theme of Air. Edwards’s address at the Church of Christ, Ponsonby Road, last evening. Many addresses bad been given, Innumerable books written by men whose ability to speak and think for themselves was beyond question, to bring the Christian religion down to the standard of earlier religions, said the preacher. Admitting that the earlier religions contained much that was worth while, yet not one of them possessed the vital force which characterised the Christian religion. It assured the believer of a life that was immortal. The Apostle Paul, when at Athens, was greatly moved by the number of id«»Js to be seen on every hand, and taking full advantage of the opportunity which the situation offered, sought to turn the attention of his hearers from the idols which they worshipped to the only true God. “We of today,” said the preacher, “owe a great deal to the philosopher of the past, the great apostle acknowledged his indebtedness to the Greeks, but he acknowledged a greater indebtedness to his Saviour, who in love had brought him to know the only true source of life. The preacher concluded by exhorting his audience to give a more earnest heed to the claims of Him, of whom His very enemies said: “Never man spake as this man.”