SOCIAL PROBLEMS.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17783, 7 August 1929, Page 9

SOCIAL PROBLEMS.

(To the Editor.) gj r , My attention was arrested by a rather unusual note in “Prophet’s" letter last week. He urges the different sections of the body of Christ to emphasise the essence of its message. This Is surely bringing out things which are old and new. We are so used to regarding the message as a vagueness that we forget that after all It has an essence. Is not its essence this: Salvation or Damnation? If you will not see God you will surely see the devil. But God wants us to be saved, and has taken, and continues to take, a lot of trouble to save us. He Is so keen on it that He came and died for us. It will be rather a job for us to achieve damnation when He has set His heart on our salvation, but still If we will have it so, there it is. He will not force Himself on us. Even we consider it only elementary manners not to force ourselves on one another. But that is only what we are told! Not at all. It is what has been proved and what wc can prove. If we will take trouble. We can’t expect to prove anything without a little purpose and trouble. We had to get down to it, you knqw, when 'as children in Standard I. we wished to prove subtraction by addition. Surely we don’t expect to get far in a glorious thing like religion without effort.—l am, etc., S. HOOPER. . Russell, August 4.

(To the Editor.) J Sir,—We simply cannot go past when “Prophet” baits us with such a j word as ‘evolution.’ It is a queer old word—means something about ‘bones’ doesn't it? But after all, man’s bones • are not such an overwhelmingly important item. Ordinarily the healthy man forgets he has any bones. What about his laughter, his tears, his aspirations, his incurable ideas about right and wrong, his mirror-llke mind, his creative power, his freewill, his suddenness, for he is sudden—he is a big shock In the world of creation as we see It? Where do all these things come from? When we are discussing ‘bones’ the word ‘evolution’ may be all right, but when we consider these other things such sublimities as ‘His own image,’ ‘breath of life’ come to mind.—l am, etc., DREAMER.