DR. GIBB AND THE RIGHT OF ENTRY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2200, 13 July 1914, Page 9

DR. GIBB AND THE RIGHT OF ENTRY.

i.- Sir, —In your issue of Julv ll appoars .:/ • let-tor signed, '.'Thos; Ai - the purpose of which is,far show up Dr." Gibb in a. very .unfavourable: light, and make' i ■. liim appear a most inconsistent man. licing\ a visitor to your, city, ; ,1; know. . neither Dr. Gibb or the writer of: tho httoi, but I do f know an illogical de- • ■ duction. 111 the statement -of an argument when I -reactor. hear , such; and . ' hero is a glaring.mstauce in ;Mr; :Tlios.' . A. HuntorV .attack on Dr. -Gibb's oon- . f;v;: sistency. ; Surely ut: clear ■ .. to . this correspon&nt that , the two sets-.of. circumstaiices under wETch .Dr. lU'Gibb; expressed; himself < aire entirely, dif-; feient. In tho 0110 case (regarding : : i'C : England)r : : that the Anglican Church ; would absolutely. "fill tlio .bill" .and liave ari; un-. . • fair • advantage -' and .monopoly; in' the. teaching'.of' tho 13iblo and religion from their. ..particular:. gious bodies' being penalised;: ' : :' ■ ! . Although aoi . Anglican .myself, I , can. Juiiderstand.J'a'.^natraral'in'digridtion; ~on;tho,part ,of -NcmcphfoiTnists, ,'who re-: f;Vv ; .'; q.uii■e^l , (and.'Should; have)yequal'.Streat-' -V v.ment. in such matters.; Dr.--{Jibbj- then,' ;l'/ his;, utterances..Mati.that:-time,. ;;TVM • . ]>erfectly : reasonable. ; : Ho dreaded, as a ■. ■■ .: i'resbyterian is usually taught :to dread, : ; '.;the.Ahglic'aii':Churcb';fc great' a. • bold ui .tlio'day schools. .1 do not my- . : belf, share, .that dread, and I ..-think--.-it is ;' oll ® ; foolishnesses) of] the • times--. ; ■ i. ; but that is not the point. -. ■ .... Ifrom a non-Anglican's point of view it is, I. suppose, a perfectly-natural con- : tho "Word of God can bo im- .. .... parted .bottei, from the jTreo Churches' ■ . methods followed' by !the: Church i:®'g'and.; This ; brings us to Dr. Gibb's. attitude,, on tho proposed ."right' ,-of ontiy" .111. tho schools of 'New Zea-' Vl . land,. and as tho positions are'entirely: difforent bo is well. able to 'lose - alto- : ::gethev- or put. aside- the fears lio had re-' gaining another country. . ' -Then .where :s the'inconsistency? It . '. is two' definite positions . taken up • under two absolutely different .sets of • circumstances.: ,vl . am: . surprised - Mr. - .Hunter: cannot, (or. will , not, which isit?).see this.-Realising as wo must do . v tliat oven-hore m Now Zealand' Pres- ■ . byterians, Mothodista, and others can-. : not seo cyo to oye with Anglican doctrines ana teaching, yet is it .not splen- ; did to knony.tliat .collectively -alKthese ■ religious orgaiiisatibns .arc prepared -to -niako/common groundi,for; N tho ;sake of ■'•'':.v-.biir:'children.?-.ri3:'it : not an - immense ,advance all along the lino when. roligious jealousy and dilbrenco cantake a. back scat, and each individual 'religious ■::} body: can say, in;effect.; '.'Well I would ■ - like to teach allthe children'my way,' , but- so long .as they get a .knowledge' of tho Bible,- and obtain religious teach-.; uig from some source other than - my r ; . : /: own,: ; I vwill ;be; thankful and ? *:■: : This, I tabo it,- is tho view of -Dr. Gibb, and every sane; person;knows- that . our-religious differences are so small- - compared to tho great essential of - . ■'religious: teaching 111 -somo form ■ that wo can still aflord to enffer, and yet. go foiward.—l ain, etc n J