Salient. The Newspaper of Victoria University College. Vol. 19, No. 8. July 1, 1955
Rationalists
Rationalists
Wells, Shaw and Russell and a dozen others have done their work well.
Their eloquent expression of the spirit of the age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe and prevented the light of the glorious gospel of Christ from shining to them. Who can teach Latin to those who resolutely refuse to believe that inflections can produce a pattern of sense? Who can teach arithemetic to those determined to reject their multiplication tables ? Who can bring to repentance those firmly fixed in mind against the existence of Cod and the fact of human sin? Emotionally the age is in petulant rebellion, which manifests itself in a dozen ways.