Sir,-It was refreshing to read the letter by 8676 (Wellington) and the talk by John Middleton Murry published in a recent issue of The Listener. I am afraid though theirs are voices crying in the wilderness so far as they have any effect upon the church,
A war-devastated, famine-stricken world is desperately in need of spiritual guidance. Man is, like a drowning person, reaching out for any object which is likely to deliver him from the morass of human wickedness he is wallowing in to-day and the church offers him ritual and ceremonials. If he goes to church regularly he is promised blissful existence after he leaves iife, or eternal torture in hell if he doesn’t go to church. To the man in the street the whole thing is unreal. It has no bearing upon his everyday life and gives him an altogether distorted conception of God.
P.
W.
(Te Awamutu).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 363, 7 June 1946, Page 5
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