REPLY TO "A MAN IN THE WILDERNESS."

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3057, 18 February 1892, Page 3

REPLY TO "A MAN IN THE WILDERNESS."

-. TO THE KDITOn. g lß) —Permit me through the columns of your valuable paper to make a few remark* in answer to your correspondent "A Man in the Wilderness." He wishes to know hnw the Creatw could ever make this world, or the smallest atom of matter, out of nothing. Will he he frond enough to tell us what this nothing is that it is impossible to do anything with ? Will he (?ive us an explanation, however wild or absurd ? I do nut want the old stock answer that it is "not anything"—l want something new; something "advanced." Is it something? Is it—(l want a now word, Mr Editor ; I hope your correspondent will supply it). If it is an entity, then fresh forms can be made from it; if it is not, who can say what fecundity may or may not be possessed bv ft thing that has no meaning to us? Your correspondent makes merry at the expense of his Maker. I would remind him thiUn atheist's laugh is a poorexchango for Deity offended, and also that He who made the law can also break it if He sees fit. It is not these things that "makes Christianity abhorrent to many an honest man, who loves trnth "—on the contrary, it is the very broath ef such men's nostrils to find anything of the kind, and they " search the Scriptures" for no other purpose than to find such. In conclusion, I will say that your correspondent's statement about the decay of Christianity only adds another proof to the many we already possess of the truth of our religion. The Bible distinctly fortells that such will be the case; the " Man in the Wilderness " is, therefore, a little behind time with hiu information.—l am, etc., Truth -