23 SEPTEMBER 1949, Page 18

MEDIATION BY GRACE

SIR,—Dr. J. S. Whale, in his review of The Claims of the Free Churches by Dr. H. Townsend, asserts that " no man, not even an Apostle, may presume to control or mediate God's grace." In St. John xx 23, we read Our Lord's words to the eleven Apostles after the Resurrection: " Whose soever sins ye remit, they arc remitted unto them ; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained." What interpretation, then, do the Free Churches place upon these words of Christ /—Yours faithfully,

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