CHRISTIAN ORDER CONFERENCE
Sir,-J. M. Bates’ reply to Ormond Burton’s review of the above Conference Report is neither generous to the reviewer, nor just to himself. For the main portion of his letter is used to remind your readers that Mr. Burton’s views are those of the minority. What on earth has that to do with the matter at issue? Truth is correspondence with fact, and cannot be determined by the numbers who accept or deny it. The Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Bates is an honoured minister, has made some great pronouncements upon matters of religion, but no reasonable critic of that great Church would dream of stating first that the Presbyterians are a small minority of the religious people of the earth. And should a sceptic open an attack on Christianity by the main point that Jesus, in His day and ours, represented only a minority, Mr. Bates would be the first to deny the admissibility, or logic, of such argument. In short, if this is the best answer an official of a Committee of the Churches can give to your reviewer’s criticism, then Mr, Burton can reasonably conclude that such criticism is difficult or impossible to gainsay. I do not, however, believe that
this is the case,-
H.
RYAN
(Napier).
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZLIST19460322.2.13.8
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 352, 22 March 1946, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
213CHRISTIAN ORDER CONFERENCE New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 352, 22 March 1946, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Material in this publication is protected by copyright.
Are Media Limited has granted permission to the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa to develop and maintain this content online. You can search, browse, print and download for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Are Media Limited for any other use.
Copyright in the work University Entrance by Janet Frame (credited as J.F., 22 March 1946, page 18), is owned by the Janet Frame Literary Trust. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this article and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the New Zealand Listener. You can search, browse, and print this article for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from the Janet Frame Literary Trust for any other use.
Copyright in the Denis Glover serial Hot Water Sailor published in 1959 is owned by Pia Glover. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this serial and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the Listener. You can search, browse, and print this serial for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Pia Glover for any other use.
Log in