EVOLUTION.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17704, 7 May 1929, Page 9

EVOLUTION.

(.To the Editor.J Sir, —My'apology for again troubling you on this subject is a misquotation by “Faith,” and as he is undoubtedly interested in the. rising generation I hope he will pardon me drawing his attention to' what must have been a slip, but of far*reaching importance. “Faith” concludes his letter by saying as follows: “The rising generation of such is the Kingdom of God.” Now, this is entirely wrong. It is of innocent children our Lord was then speaking, and it was the point of innocence that brought them within the range of that possibility. The rising generation, alas! are taught something very different to the innocence of little

children. So much is that the casi that there is no class of people so muct in need of true and sincere prayer today, as the rising generation, and particularly the 300,000 students wh< congregate in our universities am I schools of learning, and who are bcin; let loose in the world with heads l'u of knowledge, but not the knowledgi of God. “Faith” and others seem ccn tent to fill their minds with some thing man tells them in place of “tin saith the Lord,” quite oblivious of l. fact—and fact it Is—that God’s wo. has the law of evidence behind it. Th. men who wrote it were Inspired, but critics are only making affirmations based on guessing and are not even agreed amongst themselves, and if all the works of modern critics and evolutionists were put together, (hen it is ail negative—there is nothing positive, evidential or constructive. They pul! down a .glorious mansion whose very walls and stones speak of the divine hand of the Creator, and they try—for try it is—to erect a shabby little porter’s lodge scarcely fit to shelter owls and bats. At a large meeting in London recently a distinguished Indian K.C. said that of the 2UOO or so Indian students attending British colleges [ the half of them returned anti-British, I because they were anti-Christian and they were anti-Christian because of what they saw in Britain, and he added "if Britain was thoroughly Christian they would be Christians.” He

further added that he spoke thesi words with regret, as he loved Britair and owed her mucii. A very sad bu humiliating statement, largely, if nol entirely, tne result of modernistic teaching. Seeing -that ‘'Faith’.' and his.■compeers are very learned, I wish he would tell us how the stars, are hanging up yonder. J, in my simplicity, am often wondering.. Job tells me God stretched them away to or towards the north. The marvel of the wonder-working God. Compare that wonder with what Professor Henry Drummond, the students’ idol, said in his loose day of utter nonsense: "The apple which* fell in Newton's garden, Newton's dog Diamond and Newton himself began life at the same point." When Professor Drummond came to sum up all things earthly in the light of eternal verity he recanted all such writing and wished that they were all burned. It would be well indeed that those whom “Faith” is relying on would come to the same sane conclusion. May I be permitted to say a word !o Mr Magner, who is good enough to refer to myself, and thank him for his

gracious reference- This writer is urging the question of peace, which is so far most commendable, but conclusions of any kind to be permanent must spring from common premises if there is to be any degree of permanent unity, and as I am simple enough to believe in the Bible, the old Bible, and the whole Bible, I am afraid that any con-

tribution I could make would not help forward the cause he has In view, more particularly as in any effort in that direction I would have to give flrsl place in all deliberation to the Prince of Peace, who testified to His being enshrined with the same glory as the Father before the creation of the world, and testified that they created man, male and female, in the image of God, from the dust of the earth. A League of Nations composed of members from every point of the compass assembled in solemn conclave, deliberating on matetrs supposed to make for peace, and yet debarring the name that is above every name from its vocubnlary is to a plain body like myself a spectacle foreboding no good or permanent results.—l am, etc., MATTHEW HENRY. Ruakura Road, May 6.