The sun., 1916-10-10
THE BROOK KERITH."
George Moore Explains His Faith
aud the Books Genesis.

To THE EDITOR or THE SUNNI i
am writing TO thank YOU for the publ
cation of Mr.. Huneker's article In your
columns on The Brook Kcfith" -FOUR
critic is very kind. appreciative and. In
many ways. 50 very lrdulgeut that !
am loath to call attention 10 some mis-
takes. hut am forced 20 10 50 because
90 their personal nature.
lie d.Scribos mo A. a convert from
Roman Catholicism and I shall Ice
much Obliged II YOU will allow me to
say in your newspaper that ! never was
- Roman Catholic, and that n full OK
PLANTATION Of how Catholicism came into
my familv will he found in the trilogy
entitled "tIail and Farewell in the
second volume entitled "Salyc." feel
that ! am claiming more of your space
than | hay a right 10 claim by telling
the littl, story In your columns.
My great grandfather. a Protestant.
went To- spain TO trade in keip IN 49,"
eighteenth century. and as CatholiDisyi
was . necessary assumption for trading
In Spain. he married a Roman Catholic.
His son. 4 historian OF some repute.
was An uCnostic Of the type OF Gibbon.
as hi writings testify. Nv father did
! not repudiate Catholicism, Tor he was a
political leader In ireland and could not
have done 80. but he Lad no belief IN
/ revealed religion any more than tine hts
tor.ar. his father. \ remark We uttered
tu the Roman Catholic Archbishop 90
/ Tupm, on Leaving the dining room. when
| Was a little child % some sHx or seven
years OF axe, remained In my memory
: always, and Influenced my lie and,
possibly. was tho original seed OF The
, Brook korith" lie said. shocking tho
! Archbishop thereby II am afraid the
whole thinI would have been q failure
if it had rot boon for St Paul" What
led NJ 70 this remark and followed II
I have forgotten. hut 7 can still see and
hear my father.
NJ mother. n T. true. Was a Roman
Catholic. ard ? spent som" time I'm a
Roman Catholic college, but left IL In
MY very early teens because | refused
To- go to confe sion. My father raised
NO opposition. nor could he lave don,
so AS III himself did not hc,,cve IN con.
f~essipn, and for many years | remained
Interested IN religion hut outside ~ IA,
churchos. II was about ten or tw"lv,
years ago that I associated myself viii
the IRISH church. feeling mys.lf 30 b,
a Protestant. and ever since ! have beer
II staneh Protestant. though II Is tru.
that ! do not believe that Jesus eve,
claimed divinity IN the three synnp,.,
gospels. The texts seem 10 me to pre-
ciulc any such assumption. hut f,v TIA
am no less n Christian than another
Count 1'olstOy. too. the great Christian
Of the uinc:centh century. did no, Ice
lieve Jesus equal to the Father. yet (
may he doubted n cyan an Anglican
Bishop would DENY 20 him the title o
Christian. And these being my opinion
7 could NOT have represented Jesus fl
The Grook Kcri,h" as the son Of GOD
: unless the son Of God he taken IN n sor
OF pantheistic sense; Jesus Of cours
was the son Of God just ny he was ais
! the son Of Ny. lluuckcr does no
: seem to me to have DISTINGUISHED sun
/ cientlv between the Messiah, whic
Jesus undoubtedly believed himself ,
be. and tn" Godhe1d, 20 which he lai
No claim In the synnptic Gospels. NJ
belief IN himself AS the Messiah va
a enough To- cause him. IN after year.
( many qualms 81 conscience for IN
: Messiah was next to cod, u spiri'u.
being. Gods messenger. and The Brop
Kcrith" takes this strictly Pauline view
I ! have - thank Mr. IIuuetcr u
I much sympathetic criticism OF my writ
ings. and I am sure he viii forgive IN
for asking for a rectincatlon Of tw
= little mistakes. one concerning my n
lgious past and present, another cor
corning ,Icsus's attitude toward God
The Brook Kerith."
GEORGE Moore,
LoNpoN. September 90.