GOD AND MAN
Sir-If, as J. Malton Murray suggests, there were no evil in the world, what a rapid descent there would be to stark negation in literature, drama, art, religion, sport-in fact, in all human affairs and activities. Life would become as flat, stale, and negative as perpetual sunshine. Everything must have its correlative, and that of good is evil, that of night, day, that of sweet, bitter, that of faith, doubt, and so on, interminably. Browning says, "you must mix some uncertainty with faith, if you would have
bese J 2 eee" 66 af ern ee vi oe ie Oa ie, See, oe ss. ©) w > ee ase ath Co faith be." Evil is the perversion of good, as crime is the perversion of law; but man, in general, may please himself how far he carries these perversions to his own hurt. I respectfully suggest that Mr. Murray should make up his mind to accept creation as it is, sinte man can’t, and the Almighty won't, alter it. I suggest, also, that if he meditate on the classic loveliness say of a hyacinth, and the incomprehensible mystery of its growth, he may be able, and perhaps willing, to shout with St. Patl, "O the depth of the riches both.of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!"
J. E.
HAMILL
(Rotorua).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 326, 21 September 1945, Page 5
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231GOD AND MAN New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 326, 21 September 1945, Page 5
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