“GREAT QUESTIONS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 954, 23 April 1930, Page 8

“GREAT QUESTIONS”

TALK TO RATIONALISTS •'The questions at issue are great ones at the present time. Time ig our side. The victory is ours. The fight is being won for us by Christina scholarship," said Mr. J. S. Langley last evening at a welcome given hi® by the Auckland Rationalist Association. Mr. Langley is a Rationalist visitor from Australia and was ■*»' corned by Mr. C. E. Major, who Drsided. Mr. Langley claimed that it would be another 50 years before the breach between the pulpit and the pew coaS be closed. Among preachers orthodoxy today, he said, there more agnosticism than many dreamed of. He did not know a Christian scholar alive today who entirely be lieved in. or was entirely satisfied with, orthodoxy—unless he were over "The policy I have adopted is noto be hostile. I prefer a heart-to-heart talk for the study of religio, and rationalism,” continued the speaker. "I like to have people see both sides of the subject. I started off with the intention of entering the Church, but after going some distance along that path I discarded my ideas and went to Australia. Twelve years ago I took up Rationalism work in Melbourne." Mr. Langley gave a brief outline »f his work in Rationalism. During the last 10 years, he said, he had spokea on the public platform 2,500 times. He was in this country three years ago and had come on this occasion for » holiday, but had consented to give a series of lectures while in Auckland. During the evening Mr. \V. B. McLuskie and Miss Betty Tilney. tw» Sydney artists, sang, and Miss Olive Harris, aged eight years, played violi* solos.