Sir,-Your correspondents on "God in Nature" are interesting, but are plainly bogged by the mysterious mixture of heavenliness and hellishness in nature; and it is the hellishness which is the difficulty. But it is just this which makes faith necessary; and the true romance of man lies in his being a creature capable of great ventures of faith. Any fool can believe in God when things are "just heavenly." It takes a full-sized man to go on believing in God when all the devils out of hell are let loose at him, and when he sees more hellishness than heavenliness in life, But I (poor creature though I am), cherish the ambition of becoming a real man some day, and so I am grateful for that spirit in me which makes me barge through all the hellishness-of-things, that spirit which makes me determined to win through to seeing and having all things heavenly, in this world and beyond it, too. I believe God’s purpose for man in nature is just this,
C.C.
C.
(Cambridge).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 181, 11 December 1942, Page 3
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