OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1940, Page 9

OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

WAR PRODUCTION (To the Editor.) Sir, —The question as to whether sport should be discontinued is open to question, but 1 do think that as we are fighting a nation regimented for war those of us who are unable to give military service should be usefully employed and until we are required by the authorities for other duties we can at least concentrate on producing as much as possible in our gardens. There is ample land in this borough on the sections occupied by us to produce more than we require and there is no reason why tons of vegetables should be brought into our town weekly. It would be all to the_ good if our market gardeners were relieved of producing for us and could, turn their attention to producing onions or root crops for export. Now is the time to dig the ground in preparation for the spring. Here is the chance for those over military age and the athletic girls who are anxious to do something of real service.—l am, etc., NOW. Masterton, June 6.

HOCKEY UMPIRES (To the Editor.) Sir, —In your local and general column of June 5 you make mention of a letter from a correspondent, H. Hunter, Upper Hutt, complaining about hockey referees, in a game at Carterton last Saturday. I think the correspondent’s letter should have been published in full, thus giving the local governing authorities an opportunity to agree or refute the allegations. Perhaps your correspondent will tell your readers where the umpires concerned were wrong in their rulings, by giving some of the incidents. At the moment it may be your correspondent was wrong in his interpretations, or on the other hand he may have just cause for complaint. I would remind him also that there is no hockey team under the jurisdiction of the Wairarapa Hockey Association carrying the name of Masterton. To which game does he refer? Trusting a fuller report of what actually took place will be forthcoming. —1 am, etc. A. N. STUBBINGS. Masterton, June 6. The letter to which our correspondent refers will be placed at his disposal if he so desires.—-Ed.

WOMEN’S INSTITUTES & WAR

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I write this letter not on behalf of a Women’s Institute, but as an enthusiastic individual member, in the hope that other members and institutes with abler pens than mine will also take the matter up. My own personal ideas are unanimously shared by my institute as a body. Miss Jereme Spencer is to be wholeheartedly congratulated on her appeal for the abandonment of the Institute movement’s biennial conference to be held in Wellington in July next and to cost in the vicinity of £4OOO. Miss Amy Kane, Dominion President, in “Home and Country” says: “The conference will go on and those institutes who do not send a delegate will be disfranchising themselves.” Miss Kane also pointed out that* only conference can postpone conference, but the executive of the National Dairy Association and the Fruitgrowers’ Federation had the power to abandon their conferences. Surely the Women’s Institute executive can do the same. What greater appreciation can we show to our sons and brothers and husbands who go overseas to give their all that cur freedom and liberties be preserved (and indirectly our Institute movement) than that we spend our conference money in the purchase and equipment of an ambulance or ambulances. This is a time when it is essential that we think, speak and act individually and keep our members together in the bonds of friendship and not allow them to be divided by differences of opinion over the conference, which should take second place in wartime to the needs of our soldiers. —I am, etc., “PROTEST.” Carterton, June G.

APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION (To the Editor.) Sir, —As you have printed the R.C. teaching as to the Papacy (stated by the Rev Father Moore in a sermon) you might be free for your readers to be informed as to the Protestant doctrine. One is at the beginning prepared to take the low place as preferring a R.C. Christian to oneself, as we are not concerned as to persons, but the truth as given to us in the Holy Scriptures. The Apostle Peter, as is known, was by occupation an illiterate Galilean fisherman, but specially chosen by the Lord Jesus Christ and given the unique work of opening the Kingdom of Heaven on the day of Pentecost, and 3000 souls being added in one day (Acts 2; v. 41.). We understand the meaning of the scripture, “On this Rock I will build my Church." that the word Rock refers to Peter's confession of the Divine Person of the Lord. Also. “That Rock was Christ," 1 Cor. 10; v. 4. While the Apostle Peter's work was mostly limited to Jerusalem (see Galatians, c. 2, v. 9), the Apostle Paul was specially chosen to be the one only Apostle to the Gentiles. "I am the Apostle of the Gentiles.” Rom. c. 11. v. 13. The Apostle Paul specially emphasises in the Epistle to the Galatians that he had received his ministry direct from the Lord Himself and not from the Apostles at Jerusalem. Also how he had rebuked Peter when severely at fault. Gals. c. 2; vers. 14-21). Apostolic succession is not taught in Scripture. Paul refers to Timothy as his dearly beloved son in the faith and on his decease enjoins him to commit the truth to “faithful men" who should be able to teach others also; II Tim., c. 2, v. 2. The Apostle Paul himself discarded all officialism, being by occupation a tentmaker and refers to his presence as being “base" and his “speech contemptible.” I quote from 1 Cor., c. 2, vers. 2-5: “For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.”

The Apostle Paul taught the Headship of Christ as applicable to all believers. “All that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's.” 1 Cor.,

c. 1, v. 2. He says: “We see Jesus crowned with glory and honour.” “Let us go forth unto Him. without the camp, bearing His reproach..’ Hebs.. c. 13, v. 13. It is clearly seen from the Acts that the early Christians were set up in direct relationship with God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Cor., c. 8 v. 6. The Lord Himself appeals in the last chapter of the Bible: “Whosoever will. let.him take of the water of Life freely." Regarding the present trouble in Europe, the Rev Father Moore in his previous address rightly attributes it to godless apostacy and enjoins repentance to God as the only remedy. All Christians would agree that this is right as the Scripture says, quoting the Apostle Paul in his address al Athens: “God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent, because He hath appointed a day in the which He will judge (or rule) the world in righteousness by that Man (Jesus Christ) whom He hath ordained, whereof He hath given assurance unto all men in that He hath raised Him from the dead," Acts, c. 17, vers. 30-31. Thanking you for valuable space.—l am. etc. PERCY WRIGHT. Masterton. June 6.