1 JUNE 1944, Page 12

Snt,—How fascinating are the inconsistencies of man. Those who most

emphatically deny the Christian doctrine of Originhl Sin are the most ready in books such as Guilty Men and Your M.P. to accuse their enemies of wickedness. It in the Christian, with his certainty that man is a sinner, who is prepared to regard a man's past faults as errors of judgement, and to conceive of a change of heart as possible; the " Leftist," confident that man is not a sinner, treats an opponent as one whose wickedness is studied and whose sins are indelible. A Christian says that a Tory is a sinner, and that there is always hope of his salvation ; the "Leftist " that man is not a sinner and that a Tory is damned for ever.