THEOLOGY AND SOCIALISM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 25 January 1907, Page 2

THEOLOGY AND SOCIALISM.

To Die Editor. «»V-H- is eviden,. that -Cosmopolitan cannot yet awner fr.nn Dm strictly tncological ,ide of the question ti'om Hie Caihoiic aspect. If, as lie says, tim French Covcriunenl' his ''"™ '''tlerly hostile lo (;l,i-j s tuuiity. we surely have the right „, enquire e brand „l Ul , ai.ic-lc in question. 11 1 1 '* anything like il was before ll "i "evolution, ;fj„. u (| lc hosli.ity may be -excusable. I'rofcsor J)iapin. >» »'"• <"' I'is books, summin, up the '"atler. said thai -(he history „f llic Catholic (.'l.mvh was imposing; blither biograpliy was infamous," and h- was a i-hise studeni, ami an able exponent ol the mailer in question. |;,. Hie quotalion from .lulinn. a peel of our own day has written c„ntr.r,Dim Cni„(,aui!y will, earner faiths [\ : . "Thou has, coii.jn: i-..,l ii pal, Ca1i1.,,,,; Dm world has grown -rev li-om ,liy brenth. We hnv.-'druiikcn .il things Lethean ami fed on (he fu Incss of death." .If ||,is ;, s0) ;, j s |„,. eiiiise the church has forgotten in iior a-piratinns after (emporal power Dm injuiicD.in of ChrDt: -J'| u . kingdom is within you"; also, "I came that v.might have life." lYoni the siu.iv 01 (he life of the founder of the Christian religion and tile times He lived ill one wonders what kind of wall-llower the English bishop in Ids palace and the Sovereign Pontiir „l the Vatican, would ii])pear lo Die Carpenter of Nazareth. Die Man who bad nowhere to lay His Ilea.l. and Who went about do'ing good for no tiling, and Who said: "A new cominandment give J unto von Mint ye l"v ie another.-' Whim a lavninn like myself ponders on Dies,, thiim"it g'ive, him pau,,»." I have an ■idea that ttlm worldly >iini( (; i,i< t iv -of the .spiriDiallvniiudid Carpenter would be serving their own cnu-o and thai of the prolelarial much belie,- il they followed the ex-amp!.' set liv (he heathen jiriothood of llurnin. „s shown by a hook latelv piihlisii.'.l ,all «'l "The Soul of Die' People.'' Wc are living in slronmms Dines, old lan.lterprelnUons are being put on eld texts, and. inn-l significant of all. the pew is gelling iv-i'css willi (he arm gauee of 11,,. pnipil. and want, (~ know Die why ami wherefore o| filings supposed lo !>■> known rn'v ;■> the professional theologian. We' are linding out thai Die ('bunder is only singe founder afl.-r all. and llofhing really .happens. Sir. I have no quar ret wiDi any church, owing none of thrill mv a'lcgiauce Urenlogicnliv. Tnere are good, bail ami iii.l'illViv'nl folk in all of thimi as well as .miside. Tim, Judge of all the eai'.h is the One lo pass final sentence.—l am. etc.. It. A.J.