TRAGIC DESTINY
Sir-Mr. Malton Murray’s comment upon your reference to "the tragic view of human destiny that supports all religion" is typical of the chronic mental indigestion of the human being who either fails to understand the presence of God, or hugs himself in a mental dug-out or funk-hole because he has neither the intestinal stamina nor the mental capacity to face up to the actuality of God. To those who have bourne witness to the love and power of God among His human creatures, a_ living Presence indeed, a witness borne by countless millions before us, with us now, and to come, there can be no alternative. I would beg Mr. Murray to go daily with any city missioner, Salvation Army worker, or mission doctor
and live in daily contact with them in their work, and see if he can remain in his present state of mind. God is not a god of the dead, or the dust, but a God of the Living. Were not the incredulous disciples asked by God’s messengers, on the day of the resurrection, "Why seek ye Him here?" i.e., in the grave. Graves hold the material remains of human creatures, but not the spirit that animated them. Man pretends he does not understand the mind of God. But we cannot pretend any longer, after the manifestations of that mind in human relationships, in folk about us, in the material world, and at its best, in the conditions I mentioned above, in the service of humanity to humanity in the name of love, the true charity of the human spirit.
C.
R.
(Whangafei).
( Abridged.- Ed, )
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 766, 26 March 1954, Page 5
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271TRAGIC DESTINY New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 766, 26 March 1954, Page 5
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