Facing the Facts.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume X, Issue 11, 1 April 1920, Page 273

Facing the Facts.

The Rev. >G . A. Studdert-Kennedy,' M.C; ( i 'Woodbine Willie' '); man address at the annual meeting of the Christian Evidence Society, called upon his hearers to face the facts:— /'We have been trying to hoodwink ourselves into tHe belief that the scientific revelation of the nineteenth century made ho difference to bur outlook < upon life.' . .' . We have - been m the heart than m the ■land. There is always poor old |6Vlrs Brown and poor old Mr Smith who sit m the front "pew and cling with tenacity :■■ to the theology they were taught at their mother's knee— ..' tbeir mother, who lived atf a time when% Darwin and Huxley were unknown. And because the parson is a gentle, kind, lovable man, and because he has pity for old Mrs Brown and Mr Smith he does not tell the whole truth. He keeps back what he thinks of Christ, but he is sacrificing on the altar of those two dear old souls a multitude of young ones. We have got to go on that way no longer. If we are to grip the minds of the generations to come we have to face absolutely fearlessly the taskof expressing the world as we see it m the full blaze of all our modern scientific knowledge, m the terms of the faith once and for all delivered to the saints."