JOHN PLOWMAN'S TALK

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 272, 6 August 1918, Page 6

JOHN PLOWMAN'S TALK

Sir* "John Plowman's" talk in your columns pretends to be religious, but it is only Scriptural reference. The German pastors and ministers of religion hold the belief that "Germany is the rock on which Goil is to establish His Kingdom, arid the Germans are His holy people by whom 'His fierco anger" t/.ciiii. ni, St is to bo pourxl out l pon nil the nations." It has becomo the custom of some pastors, imbued with Lutheran ideals, that God lias sent this war upon us for our punishment. These ideas are false. It has always been the custom of tho so-called religious to persecute, and to practise all manner of intolerance upon those who do not believe as they believe. That spirit made Germany mad. It would make 6oma among us just as intolerable. It was. the Jews _ who introduced ■. religious persecution into the Judicial Code ttiey borrowed from Babylonia-Hammarubi;; and we have continued the Levito perfection with the Levite indifference to the man who fell among thieves, even unto this day of ouf Christian civilisation. lot "John Plowman" look round and ask himself: Who are the person? who seek most ease, make least sacrifice, and suffer least personal inconvenience t Are they not those who have sworn to* undergo all privations to save the soul? of men? "John Plowman's" talk aboiit necessity for the nations' punishment is nil rubbish. What the nation wants is not bruising and bleeding aud breaking, but healing and tolerance arid charity.— I am, etc., J. N.