DIRTY WATER

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 88, 8 January 1919, Page 6

DIRTY WATER

. Sir,—ln tin's morning's issue appeared mi article entitled "The Church and the World." This nrtiele stated Hint the renort of the' Archbishops was—in effect —"that the Church.had failed to a hearing for its ' message." What A'rchWshopsH What OhuTcir? And what message? Incidentally, the.Church of Fiiqland is mentioned, and renders are left to infer ; that this is the body indicated. Assuming the ...Anglican "Church to he the one aeainst which tl le chnnjehns heen made, one nnliirnlly nsks one's eelf whether the Archbishops, of this particular ChuHi did in nice such a report, and, if eo. whet'iex the report is correct, and truthful in its assertion; nisi the nature of the message. : For, if the. gist of this inposape slmnM happen to , he summed tin in. the brief commandant to "Do ROpd nnd eschew . evil'. , (see I Peter. 3 and 11). then the report is without' foundation, as may lie'proved nny Sunday hv littendiu". a "Communion" or "Litanv" service. The trouble is that the world generally does not to eschew evil, an'l "rets over the difficulty by dodfing and h.v throwing "dirty water": the. Intter Vint; fhe favourite weapon of the "waster" in hi' vituperations a»ainst.' tho eo-cnlled "wowser" fpnrson). . ' ■ Admitted that not all the enthusiasm has been put into the mp«*i<re fhat niMit bnve been put. and that the enunciation thereof has oftimes dctrone>-«tod nearly to the riiecbnnicnl.vet it has be»n there for tl,o« P ,i-1,0 looked for it. "Peek, and ye shall find," etc. But the nve.Mße. mnn and woman do not care to seek, lesfthov should find that the long Inne nf each of their lives must have a rnmine. n"d they dread the though For. bluntly put. they prefer acting on' tbe crews r"flier tlun on the snuare. nnd c o Uie niiiirch Rets "dirty wnter." And tlien .Tehovah calls in the Assyrian . (Hie Kaiser) and a few plafrnes 'and other evils to etraighten inntrers nn eoniewliat. and to brine the people to renentance. "For .Ichovoh is n pod of love; be Ice* riehteonsness nnd bates iniquity (see T Peter, 3 and 12).—1 am. etc.. J.'B. D.. January 7, 1919.