CHRISTIAN TEACHING.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19065, 2 October 1933, Page 5

CHRISTIAN TEACHING.

TESTED BY CRISES.

ADDRESS BY DR. ANGUS.

(From a Correspondent.) MELBOURNE, Sept.l4. “Christianity so far as it is the re- . ligion of Jesus, so far as it is Inform- | fid by llis spirit, is the most spontane- i ous and inspiring religion on earth. It | is man’s -supreme effort under God to lay hold on His supreme immutable \alues,’’ said Dr. Angus, Professor of Theology at St. Andrews College, Sydney, addressing the theological students of the Melbourne University to-day. “Both the clergy and the laity,” he said, "are learning to use their own eyes in the search of God instead of looking for Him through ill-matched lenses of Jew-Greek binoculars. Men were getting nearer to religion. “There is nothing essential in any religion which criticism can destroy, or even shake,” he proceeded. “We should all .be critics and each do his own religion. This will keep us so permanently employed as not to permit much leisure 'for the criticism of other peoples’ religions. Essential Christianity fears no crisis, not even that of the present. By its own nature and evolution it actually brings about crisis after crisis and thus proves its vitality. A living religion is never more itself than in a crisis. It is the crisis that for religion, as for the individual, brings out, the essential which manifests the difference between religion and superstition. Men will not permit religion which bears little fruit, but produces noisy talk to cumber the rich soil of human life.