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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 233, 10 December 1943, Page 3

Sir-With reference to the final paragraph of "Simple Simon’s" article in The Listener, I imagine that he would claim. that, being "simple" (i.e., mentally deficient), he is not responsible for the sense of his writings. But I feel that your readers are entitled to some knowledge of the subject presented to them by the writer. If "Simple Simon" would study simple geography, he would find that in Palestine there is a well known geographical feature called by geographers "the Rift." This is a valley running from Mount Hermon in Syria to the Gulf of Akaba and the Red Sea. The River Jordan runs down this valley as far as the Dead Sea, at which point

it is 1200 feet below sea level. Between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Akaba the plain is nowhere more than 200 feet, and usually considerably less, above sea level. I am not concerned to justify the "Word of Jehovah" in Ezekiel "47. He will make good His Word and His promises in His own time. I would merely point out that earthquakes are by no means infrequent in those parts, and have done stranger things than raise the earth’s surface a few feet, enabling sea or river water to run where it did

not before,-

K. E.

WRIGHT

(Nelson).