CHRISTIANITY AND THE WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1259, 14 October 1911, Page 6

CHRISTIANITY AND THE WORLD.

Sir,—Commenting on tho Anglican Bishop of Carlisle's cabled utterance's, you sin tea that the Bishop's assertion, "Tliero is no incorporate relation between Christianity and tliu world to-day," is not clear. 1 beg to diil'cr, sir, for to mo the Bishop's worcis leavo uo doubt as to their meaning, aud 1 hope my unprejudiced reader nill agree with me. Let him simply turn over the pages of Tin; Dominion, Soptomber 21, where tho Bishop's utterances are- reported, and tliero ho will find (ho sad account of a man who died at Brooklyn, leaving a widow and live children, all of tendec age, in utter destitution., A meeting was held at Brooklyn, and a subscription started, with tho laudable object to help tho bereft family. Was (hero any parson among those who gathered at Full- ' lord's Hall? .Now, let my reader turn over to another p3ge, and there ho will find that a hro which occurred at Hataitai has left a family with four children, of whom tho eldest is nine years, and the youngest but leu mouths' old, quite destitute. Mr. M'Larcn has written to a local paper suggesting a s\ibscription. Why did not a parson roe fit to take the load in this matter? In another page it is stated that Dr. Hav, aud all tho members of the Eugenic Society, nro bent upon checking tlio increasing number, of the defectives, and the improvement ui the race. Which is the parson who has a sharo in this movement? Some time aj.'c the price of butter went up to Is. Cd. It must have been hard then for the poor father to keep his children on bread a;;J butter, whence nrotrsfa and.suggestions in tho local press. Did any parson como forward in those daV9 in tho name of tho starving children? No, as far'as I know. Sir. in England, the parson has winked at all sorts of social injustices, which make living hard, and the way to the hospital, to gaol, and to social revolution easy, and m he has in New Zealand. 16 it to be wondered at. If the people now turn (heir back In Unchurch? "There is no incorporate relation between Christianity and the world to-dav" means that ('hrMiauity is dying in Angln-Snxnndnm because tho pnrW has ' become insensible to the hardships of a suffering humanity, a real abscnlco of tho public lil'o.—l am, etc., M. BORGHETTI, M.D.