To the Editor of the "Norta-Cuina Day News.'
Srr,—No enthusiast has attempted in your columns to explain the Church's conception of eventual punishment for unbelieving, a question which erosd, out of Mr. Coates' agitation, and which I raised in my letter of the 6th instant, But the writer of Cathedral Notes has referred to my comment upon the. contradictory representations of God as a tribal Diety and a merciful Father, and has pointed out that, had I been more to church and. less "in the street,"? I should have heard how the clergy reconcile the Old Testament and the New. The implication seems to be that a, man who only looks in to-a service occasionally has no idea how satisfactorily all these contradictions can be explained), but that a regular course of church-going' would give him a very clear idea of the truth. This argument ignores the fact that a very largo proportion of the "men in the street" have at one time or another been regular church attendants, and it was only when they began to reason things out for themselves that they found the theological teaching~ of the Church did not ring true.
The generation that is passing away were submerged in Sunday schools, Church services and family prayers in the days of their youth. Surely they had sufficient opportunity to listen to the "truth." And yet the reaction was such that most of them became "nen in the street'? before'
decline in their morals or in-middle-age, without any apparent telligence. 4 -I must admit that I have never heard a sermon in the Cathedral here, but after reading in the Cathedral Notes of the sth in-
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