BACK TO THE BIBLE

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22507, 15 September 1938, Page 9

BACK TO THE BIBLE

TO THE BOITOB Of ZHX PBE33. Sir, —The last two correspondents have drifted somewhat from my first letter of August 30, under the above heading. It is really laughable to read the letter' by a Roman Catholic correspondent in face of it. Fancy people reading newspapers having any chance whatsoever of appreciating their news side by side with the Bible, when Rome, if it had had its way,, would have seen to it that they never got a chance of reading prophecies in the Bible, and especially thoge'in Revelation. Strange that this ••'correspondent should drop “Roman” when Pope Pius LV' in his creed of 1564, specifically' used the title “The Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church”. In .answer to “Puzzled,” I have al- ’ ready shown how modernists’ ideas are •oi'ost dishonouring to God’s; honour and glory through rejecting inspiration in prophecy; consequently prophetic, promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, of material blessings to their descendants in ages' to come are either completely ignored or else have to be explained away. Modernists, thinking God is. so restricted in his power and foresight as to have made mistakes in promising what he cannot now fulfil, try to save His face by spiritualising these promises as handed over to the Church. But “a nation and com-

pany of notions,” apart from the British Empire, springing from Jacob, takes a lot of explaining away.—Yours, etc., P. H. PRITCHETT. September 13, 1938. [This correspondence is now closed.— Ed., “The Press.”] I