ORIGINAL SIN
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I think your correspondent " Z." mistakes the nature of sin : sin is our habitual falling short of a standard which our conscience tells us is attainable ; the doctrine of " original sin " is merely the generalization of this. If " Z." would lay aside prejudice and reread his Bible apart from the human systems that have been imposed upon it, he would find that the Christianity which it teaches is just that " simple, natural religion " for which he is looking, despite the pitiful efforts of many " Christians " to cultivate their spiritual lives by the neglect of the pleasures and, too often, the duties of everyday natural life : see e.g., Gen. i. 31, Isa. vi. 3. (R.V. marg.) Matt. v. 48, John x. 10, Phil. iii. 14, Heb. vi. 1, James i. 16, 17.—I am, Sir, &c.,
Cater/16m Valley. (Rev.) B. C. Wmnowsox.
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