8 MAY 1942, Page 11

" RECONVERSION" OR REVIVAL" SIR, —As one of the 90 per cent.

of the population who do not belong to any denqrnination of Christians who believe in an anthropomorphic or supernatural or personal Deity, may I be permitted to offer a few remarks in answer to the letter by Mr. Ross Wiffiamson in your issue of May 1st?

It is incorrect to class us as non-practising Christians. We all stand for Christian ethics, which the World Conference of Faiths has shown to be the common ground on which all people of goodwill can meet. I am aware that the minority of the population hold that ethics cannot be divarced from religion, in spite of the fact that Buddha proved the contrary soo years before the birth of Jesus.

We fully appreciate the necessity for continuous " revivals " in ethical standards, and are continually on the look out for new methods of developing the Natural spiritualit: (with a small s) in Youth. Witness the Service of Youth movement.

A man is dominated either by reason or by sentiment; if Mr. Ross Williamson read the more outstanding of the text-books that have helped us to reconstruct our philosophy since the days when Darwin dealt the death blow to dogma, he would recognise the futility of expecting any af us to be "reconverted.' The people of the past three generations most dominated by reason have been helped by such books as Literaturt and Dogma (Matthew Arnold), Origin of Religious Beliefs (Bariag Gould), The Churches and Modern Thought (V. Phelps), The Martyrdom of Man (Winwood Reade), The Creed of Buddha and the Creed of Christ (Edmond Holmes).—Yours, &c., HEBERT HUDSON. Wickham Bishops. Essex.