PUBLIC OPINION.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17977, 24 March 1930, Page 9

PUBLIC OPINION.

As expressed .by correspondents, whose letters are welcome, but for whose views we have no responsibility. Correspondents are requested to write in ink. A PROTEST. (To the Editor.) Sir, —1 have no sympathy with the views expressed by “Rational.” They are dangerous; if widely held would ' wreck society and cause social chaos, •find the world would he a good place to be out of. At the same time I desire to enter a most fervent protest at • the tone of the letter -of Alphonsus W. Seiwyn. A more vituperative epistle has never sullied the columns of a • newspaper. Germing. as «t apparently does, from one professes association with the visible church, it is r altogether inexcusable. It- lacks m spirit all for which the Church stands. Ono can hardly wonder at the growth of infidelity when those who profess to be members of the Christian Church give expression to their views with such venom and hatred. —I am, etc., TOLERANCE. Hamilton, March 22. CHRISTIAN CONGREGATIONS. (To the Editor.) Sir, —Residing in Hamilton for several years one is struck with the lack of reciprocity amongst the various Christian congregations, here. As a member of a church 1 hardly remember an outside denomination man in the pulpit during several years, and •this seems largely general. Why this isolation? Would not a combined meeting of all the Christian congregations in Hamilton from time to time in a great open-air service with the glorious hymns which are our united priceless heritage, inspire Christian people with the s-ense of our true oneness in •the gospel of Jesus Christ? We all believe 4hat our gospel stands for the most glorious things t for humanity, why not say so sometimes unitedly? The question of whether we belong to this church or that church will mean very little in the next life. Why should it separate us in this when, broadly speaking, all church members are united under the one banner of Jesus Christ? A lead in this matter in Hamji- -jl-ton would extend elsewhere. One tliinks of the great world movements to-day, the conferences striving for peace ’and lessening jof the ills and evils of humanity, the persecution in Russia the manifold difficulty ofwoild movements that literally drive earnest men and women to prayer. Such a united gathering with its cry of pen-it-ance, petition, praise and worship, would surely be for good. Will not our Hamilton Ministers’ Association take a lead in the matter? —I am, etc., WIDER VISION.