RELIGIOUS TRUTH.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19144, 29 October 1927, Page 16

RELIGIOUS TRUTH.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE PRESS. Sir,—ln your issue of the 26th I was interested and impressed by the letter appearing over the pen-name of. "AntiHumbug," as, I am sure, were a great number of your readers. It deserved a better nom-de-plume. With the pressure of life, and the unceasing urge to solve its many problems, one has in times past sought surcease from those places and individuals that held out the attractive promise of the solution of those same problems. But alas! "t'were all in vain." Surelv the meaning of the universe including man is not subject to personal opinion. That Theology thinks it is, is the premise upon which theological confusion is raised. Christianity as taught by Christ Jesus was demonstrable, hence it must be scientific; that is, if must be based upon a given principle governed py unalterable rules and laws, which if stated and applied correctly "solves the problem.

That Christianity is scientific and not the personal opinion of Jesus is proved by His own words, "I can of my own self do nothing." But—(and here is the vital spark missed by theology in its self-aggrandisement, and urgently wanted and sought for by mankind)—the great Demonstrator of absolute scientific troth solved every problem known to humanity and incidentally left this searching legacv, "He that •beheveth on m» the, (works) that I

„ do shall be do also/' which might mean i that he that understands the absolute f truth as I do, will accomplish the same f results. Scholastic theology is wan- - ing. Mankind ean wait no longer for ■ its unfulfilled promises. Mankind is [ moving onward toward a higher concepl tion of manhood and brotherhood, and is leaving behind the limbo of an,ti--1 quatod beliefs and practices whieh have ' been but rungs on the ladder of life, no longer useful after the foot has left it. Some day, no doubt, the science of absolute truth will be discovered, when every man will be his own doctor and priest, subject to no person anywhere, but to truth only.—Yours, etc., STUDENT.