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Belief and reason A • was greatly interested in Mr

John A. Hall's assertion (November I) that Chnstians have no use for a deus ex tYlachina type of deity. From this I conclude he would not countenance, the days of prayer ordained from time to ,.,1111.e by Christian prelates. The real "cant, however, is whether or not the ni°u0syl1able 'god' connotes an entity tilat is susceptible of a meaning that can frbe aPPrehended by the intellect apart d cLru the emotions There is no good tLating the existence of something

Is entirely nebulous and vaporous. at cannot be apprehended must, by the rational man, be discarded.

G. Reichardt

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