Show thought of go d as dispensing an earthquake Is not christian by DR J M X WILSON canon worcester eng cathedral the prevailing thought is still that we must look for him in signs from heaven s some 0 me interference with physical laws if there is a god in heaven such as we were taught about lie ile could interfere to prevent the awful evils in the world that is the natural conclusion from the concept conception iob which we now implant in our schools of a pre christian god apart from men ruling the world of man if ile he is riot not that men ask what is lie ile lie ile is regarded as willing and causing all that happens that ismore than we ave are entitled to say the mystery of god is not so simply solved A few months ago when tokyo was destroyed by an earthquake a leading newspaper and even a bishop spoke of it as a dispensation of providence Is it so such a thought of god as dispensing an earthquake is neither christian nor philo but a primitive crimiti miti ve and mistaken guess nothing Ko thino less is needed ultimately than a revision of presentation of the christian Cli ristian revelation of god freed from some of the integ integuments and associations and quasi logical inferences it has carried with it from pre christion days or acquired from uon tion christian sources in its passage through the darker christim christian centuries |