The day of Judgment.

The idea of this terrible day people can abandon, as God judges us every day, and we are rewarded or punished according to our daily actions. It is sad to think that painters and poets have so long prostituted their divine gifts to chain humanity to perfectly wrong ideals. The words of most of our oratorios and church hymns are a traversty upon our civilisation: It is much the same with the subject matter of a considerable number of our great pictures dealing with the Resurrection, Ascension, Heaven, Hell, etc., etc. The whole of Europe has bowed itself to a mistaken worship. Are we not in error in Australasia in following it ? Christianity totally lacks four great essentials—(1) Harmony in the community; (2 virtue; (3) family reverence; and (4) respect for home page 16 life "I am come to set a man at variance against his father, the daughter against the mother," etc., etc., (Matthew, e.10, v.35) and v. 37—"He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me." What wonder our girls, forsake home and parent and become non-virtuous under such teaching? Or take v.34—"I am not come to send peace, but a sword." How can there be any harmony amongst us? (This Chapter 10 should not be read in any church of God.) It is therefore not necessary to look to any future day of judgment for following such teaching. The immorality and home disruption of any of our Australasian cities is a sufficient present punishment. In this we should call what is best from Chinese life, where every girl is taught to respect home and parent, and even the dead must be buried in the family sepulchre. Confucius was a great moral and virtuous teacher.