The Archive · 1938

Point at Issue

the Editor of the "Nomn-Ciuxa Day News"

Su,—Bible Student's intemperate language was read correctly, his chal-longing letters applied honestly, his exuberant sectarianism chastened. deserved!

Open-mindedly Jet him once and for all review the case reduced to its sole essential elements. From his letter of February "The work of, the Missions, how. ker fo'do with the spreading Kingdom of Goa "P*e00iMe Now, change this. radio! assumption of his to precisely: the opposite sense:

The work of the Aissicns hat evergthuig to, do with the spreading, ofthe Kingdom' of God.

More accurately expressed, this Catholic doctrinal conception should read: This work is the Kingdom of God.

Does Buue Sruvext still fail to see that, by challenging publicly and by name this theology of the Kingdom, is equivalently (even if unwitting:

disparaging the Mission's social land religious raison d'étre? This should explain everything ini letter, even to the foundlings' clothes.

T erred on the side of naivete, this how appears, in presuming that the logical nexus above was apparent to' outsiders, most particularly to a student of the Bible. Assuredly, bad faith does not go with unintentional misunderstanding of one's position and T thus promptly take back: this

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