AUTHOR REBUKED

Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1933, Page 7

AUTHOR REBUKED

REFERENCES TO THE BIBLE,

BEEKEEPER'S AFFRONTED

LONDON, January 1

The County of Wexford Beekeepers’ Association, of which Mr Bernard Sluiw became a. life member in 1928, is .buzzing -angrily over “The Adventures of a Black uirl in Search of God,” published early this month. Dr. Green, addressing a meeting at Enniiicorthy, proposed that Mr Shaw’s name be removed from the roll of linember.-'liipi because' of his • “blasphemous statements concerning Christ and His Apostles.” The (speaker added that a man whose sarcasm and ridicule struck at the very foundations of Christianity should not even remotely he associated with an honourable society, of beekeepers. Mr J. S. Macdonald, declaring that he did not want to b e associated with an infidel, urged that if the beekeepers could not compel Ah- Shaw to- retract, they should mark their disapproval. Discussion of the motion was adjourned until the annual meeting. Mr Shaw, in the hook referred to, sayte: —“The Bible is scientifically obsolete but in other respects remains interesting a® a record of how the idea o,f God developed from the childish idolatry of a. thundering, earthquaking, famine-striking, pestilence* launching, blinding, deafening, killing and destructively omnipotent ..bogey man to the braver realisation of a benevolent Sage, just Judge, and affectionate Father, evolving into the incorporeal Word which never becomes flesh.” Of the Apostles the author says:— “'Sometimes they suggest that there was not a Christian among them. Judas alon e showed, a gleam of common sense.”