MR GRINSTEAD'S LECTURES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 September 1916, Page 3

MR GRINSTEAD'S LECTURES.

Sir, —I am sorry to liuve offended "'A Believer in the Old Evangel" (which evangel I wonder? the one I showed had! been a corrupter of the oldest evangel; cr the oldest?) I'he now - evangel I preached wa.s salvation 5 through the precious Wood of Christ i for whosoever will. Your correspond- - ent says tliht my address was almost 1 wholly an attack on the religious Indies. I have not got a copy <>f tl:o > report, but I dio know that.throughout > my address I made no attack upon any religious body at all. I was dealing • wi.tih the 'corruptions of Xew Testament Christianity and telling the ftiistciry of in movement for restoring the primeval church in fiaiitili and practice. Your •correspondent .speaks of a truce on religious quest ions. f shall be glad to know who arranged it '.I.lxl when. I have until recently been a member of the AVollingtoii Ministers' Association, i I am at present a member of the Pa'lmerston • Nor.th •Mini-stoi's' Association, i.ind if suich an arrangement boon come to certainly I should k'now something about it. Has there been a truce by the larger religions bodies? may T .ask. Have they ceased to preach mud practice that which i« objectionable to others? Your correspondent knowrs perfectly well tiiey have not, if lie is

informed; at all. lam satisfied tlilnt there pan be no victory for the church of the living God. until she frees herself from the traditions of men and there can be 110 truce as fan- lis I am concerned whilst thousands are rejecting Christ 'because of sectarianism and tens oP thousands i.ire rejecting Christ because of'the caricature offered them as the religion of our Lord Jesus Christ. ;I remember the Prince of Peace spoke without compromise when [ he (said "In vain do 30U worship Me teaching fo.r your doctrines the commandments of men." The address delivered was one of a special series on the history of the kingdom of God an outlined by the Lord in his parables. It 'is hard to discern between men and the systems they represent. I owe too much to many of the men who have died to spend my time in censorious criticism, hut men tind; women at homo and abroad to-day are asking the way to real effectual Christian union, mid T claim that the associated churches of Christ have answered that question bv insisting thint what is not in the vSc-rip-tui'es shall -not be taught as Christianity, and by insisting that the scriptures s-haill be the sole and absolute authority in matters of religion. It mav interest your correspondent to know that [ am in charge of the circuit, though even if I were a stranger it might be well to listen and ponder.— I jim, etc..

HERBERT GRINSTEAD