LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2125, 17 April 1914, Page 8

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST. Sir,—Tiio view «f a "iwy<:ii'o!o(jt<.'al" ' Resurrection of Christ sue], «s was m«nlioited in .1 note under a cable yesierilny in your pajx.T is not sfitwfyinjj on examination, though at lirst sujn't to many it may upfwar sft. Tito danger <d regarding the. kcnurrcclion un a vision or hallucination is guarded against by Ht. Luke's account.' 'J'ho Oisciples naturally thought tlicy saw ;.i spirit, "l%r as yet they knew not tiio scriptures that lie must rise- again from tho dead." Wo aro told that Christ said

"Behold My hands and .My feet, that, it is My»clt' Haudit! .Me, :md <*e, for a spirit hath not flesh and bonra, as vo Sf:o Ale have." • Also, to cunvmeo them Ho ate of their food. St. .John, n, 10, tells us, "When the doors were shut where tlio Dissipios wero assembled fir fear of the Jews, came Jeims, and stood in tho midst," etc. Mmi in a siste- of depression and fear, their minds iUlcd with sorrow and di&ajjpointnront for tho apparent failure of their Master, were act in a skite of jiiind to see visions.

There has never, so far tis I know,. bfieu a case recorded where a visKHi, hallucination, ar illusion has toon «f----footed unless those gathered tom-ther wero under strong excitement, dominated by ono idea or expectation, cr else in absolute quiet, when the. sub-eon-soious self rises abovo the ordinary consciousness. No vision or hallucination will resrkmd. to touch, and we aro 4-old that Clirist said, "Handle Me." Tho differences in the accounts of tho Resurrection aro tho uiinrisLalsabld sig.B3 of truth. No four witnesses of an.? one event will describe it in the snroo way or words. lSach will iell of something they saw that gives tho complete picture. Take away the miracteß from tfto New Testament, and tho life of Christ is unreasonable, for no man before -est since, who was sane, has nover dared to point to himself, instead of a Higher. "Como unto Mo" are Christ's words. As St. Paul says: "If Christ Imtb not been raised then is pur preaching vain. Your faith also is vain."—l am, j et C!'! ' A^LICAN.

THE CRY FOR A NEW GALENPAR. ■Sir,—ln reading your leadw m today's issue of 'fur, Dominion re "A Now Calendar "Wanted," 1 note you makensu of tho following. words: "By that Uuio tho year had become eleven days oat. and when nil Act of Parlia.mcn£ was passed setting the matter right., some ignorant people- who imagined mix*, eleven davs had been taken off their lives raised tho cry of; 'Give Us back our eleven days' '" Now, Sir, in ftll due respect, I would Bay that as 1 read English history of that period, the cry arose from the -commercial -houses which found their hills becoming duo eleven days earlier than they anticipated, and conseqjionfly found tiumtselves Hi a financial dilemma (as they were in many eases unprepared to moot their liahilities), and it is stated that hundreds of people were ruined by t« change of dates, which caused thpi'r bills to become, due so much earlier, beftco the- cry of:. "Give us hack our eleven days," which would have enabled them to settle their accounts as they became duo under tho old stylo of reckoning, I do not wish to imply that what you . state is wrong, hut that the nmro sow ous aspect of tiro business, commercial failure, was tho origin of tho cry

CHarcville, April 14A BEPUY TO MESSRS. eWEeHOBN AND LEAHV, ANO "ANCLJCAM." Sif, —In your issue of April 13. yo-ur three correspondeirts, whom I have .-named.-aro no donbb phucklwg over-tho trnp th'ev have sot to catch wo, >\ ell, Messrs. Leary and Cleghorii, -you cannot "eitteli old birds with chaffy " Try again!' Mr. Cleghorn accuses roo of making three- mis-statements. JSo. 1: That f stated that Professors Macken'mq and Hunter had been sowing their seeds in the churches' instjtatiofls, to it is a curious fact that when these two professors failed to- draw Canon Garland and Bishop- Sprott. tnte a newspaper controversy, these two "lessor luminaries" put- forth alm&st identically tilio sauio questions and demanded an answof. Question fto, 2, Mr. Cleghorn, answers itself. I still hold to my. assertion that the Church ncywr intended to "support an institution for such as hold his epiirlows. Mind, I am not assorting that they are right or wrong —if I judee the intention of tho i!f«mntiors" of this institution aright. Hosv wo eo»o 1o tlio jjuestiou No. 3. Trtte. Cleghonu this is tho most serious statomettt—not mis-statenveiit. Sir, I think I will ho nhlo te oonvinco your esiee-nwd correspondent, "AngHean," that all is not right with that institution. K "Anglican" and Mr. Cleghorn will endorse such conduct as tho followiiiß and state whether they ■ consider it fit for such institutions he- : longing to tta Church, I will, say nothing more on tho- matter, but I aunioi !!olng to apologise unless they consider it prooor eoudoet- for stftdents who are miiiijling- with those who ni-o intended for tho ministry of tho Church, Sir, wo hear a lot of tlio las observance of Sunday, but what can wo expect when such conduct is allowed hi tho Churches' institutions? 'Do "Anglican" and Mr. CleghoFn endorse such conduct on Sunday as shooting at a target? Tins took flace at the hostel some months ago and I saw it myself. This conduct is an offeneo iy*mhist the Polifto Act to discharge a rifle in vity limits; some seven or shots were fired. Then flag-signalling was a common practice. This was genoraiiy indulged in during church, hours, ia tho forenoon* though, 1 could never discover who was signalled to, except it was "tho man in tho moon." ''Aircljcan" and Mr. Cloghorn might think this is all quite harmless: it t»ay be, but if theso things aio "done in tho creen tree, what are wo to expect in the dry."

But tho worst is to coma. On a Sunday rooming last November t after maw nip; service at Kelbimie OJntrch, I had occasion to no touihJ that way. There wire sonso t'hrco of four yotiip ladies who had been to Church. _ A nrorrTwr of those boarders wsro sitting rottud tlio upper storey windows outside , They kept up a ttmtiiirial Nofse, starting out anfj waving bands ami papers to these voune Mies, but thev aat iro -espouse, too "Anglican" «nd Mr. Clcßhoru tfoiiA this is conduct that tho" Church sbould tolerate.? Why. any boarders in any of ; tho congested districts of tho city wovrld ! have more respect for their good names, ; This is my explanation to "Anglican." : I. Iran** it vWll satisfy bim. I have very littlo to say to Mr. Leafy's balderdash, 51V. Lonry has taken up the ctio of Professor Mackenzie and wants n fiill-dross rehearsal ill ptiblie. I never iißitojiflccl that I liael 'by my zeal betrays*! the Chwj'T. to tlwi accusation of Jjisefcry. No, sis-, nil I havo done—if that is betrayal—, as a lnimhlft follower of the ■Ohnreh a.iid what slio stands for, if th.it I foKkwed tho "leaders of the Church" in tins great question. She S& wot go into tteso question without dtio cdwsidora-' tion and being a normal man I followed tho majority of ftowtml rrtflri in %c Clmrdi. N 7 ot so Mr. Lairy: perhaps ho is an abnormal man and followed t!« avowed enemies of tho Church.' _ Mr, Leaiy pleads again for liberty. Sir, if hr> wuit's to net against tho views of the Church ho tfould get out of the institution. Then ho could have as finish liberty as he likes, ft was Wows to me that Mr. Leary was in favour of &■&•, tional Prohibition. Mr. Leary again blunders and blunders badly, Mr. Leary guessed right that I atn a loyal church* man. Can ho say as much? But I a„m not an ardent liquor advocate, I thought wlseii Mr,_ Leary started his M-k-i" lii? luiew my views oil theso matters.

Again I should ask Mr. Leasy to furnish youf readers with tii:o -figures iv'iiMi he says "that a majority of tho Anglican. C3.ii.neh is against the ProHM» tkm movement." 1 am not a debater iiiid l»sin» jio desire to lie. sycli. Victoria. College is ttiniing out thews public fle-ImU-rs by the store. Mr, Lcary might find 0110 of those to discuss these tw« questions wit-b,—-I am, etc., , ~ _ I. M. MIILIGAN, April. 15, 191-1.

"THE STAR Hi THE EAST. ,f Sir,—Your wrresponslent "Scott/' in to-day's issno <rf TmcDoMWios, has Vmnivd out a lack of eleirfless in Jfo Uiristw a reported rciDorka on the alkjgcil widespread expectation o.f tho advent of some divine 'teachfrr. Mfr.y 1 bo permitted to remark upon ono' or two othttr .points on which Una lecturer tmeins, irom recoilt veparts <rf her lee. • tares, to have been less lucid than desirable in tho interests .of truth. (1) The Protector of tho ftrdcr of tiho Mar in tho East, Mrs. Annie- Besaftt, and .her adjutant, Le-.tdbeatc? hx name, have Jong ago decided who this expected teacher is. His jiumo is Kri's'h. ■namurti, bom of Nntayaniaii. and lie has a bretter .named Nityaiiimda, natives of fcoathefft India, These two boys wnfp, until last year, uftdei- th.o"protec:tio.n' { Oi Mm. Bcsan't and Leadbcatbr, w-hoso are at Adyar, Madtas. After a lawsuit in tho Madts-s Hidi Court early in 31)18, tho father in May recovered his two sons from this "protection,' Some of Mrs, JJcsajit's cvideneo m oath at the tnal mfty ißte-resfc youif readers, "la. E.S. g.nj,, Esoteric Bcciety, or isee-ret) meetings, .1 have said mm w twice that tho bay's bod-v Will bo vised by Ijord Maitreva. I did not say it puli'liely, but I said it after Becomher 28, 1911, . , . In 'the Link' 1 said I dodicatwl at first' three bodies, but later, as things -eamo dearer and clearer, I said that the body o.f the el-dor minor (i.e., Krishimnttrrtvi, alias Alcyone) would bo.used by t©rd ,Ma:ifreya. . , I also. befiore tlijit to.rd Maitreya and liord Christ aro tho isame. .'. { believe He used tho body of another disciple, 2SOO years ago. 'Lord Christ ■and Lord Maitreyft are tho sam», M*st<* Jesus was a rjitterent person-. Of eotfrto 1 should not have published ihat to tho irorid. I only thought it bar! gone tfi people wha havo plfldgei theraseives." Again, in "The- Tueoso.p'hist" of Ja'nliary, 1911 slie writes; "I referred there to Iwrd Christ's advefit. 1 referred to the appearance of another personage like l.crd' dirist, I mean it-' I -do admit it, Without quoting any more, 1 do believe that his bgily be iiKed by Lord Jiaitreya sokhb years hone*," Compare also the following extract from "The Link," Febrtiary, 1912: "A great coronet of feriUiant,, swmßte-ting bteo appeared '4 foot of 60 ahove tho young head (i.e.,. Koshuarnarti's), and froni this _ .fannel-wise, brfeljt -fitroahis of blue- light, till they touched the dark hair efttering. and flooding the ■fiend.; the Lord Ma.itrey-a was there embodying Himself in His ehosen (i.e., in Krislrafimafti). Remember that 'Lord, Maitreya, and. Lord Christ are the tame* I"

(S) Miss Christie .is not reported to have mcirtiohad in her lectures the fact that tho theosopbists of Oerfitsny, Sweden, and many in England and else' where hare entirely repudiated all eoflneetion witih tho Order of the Star in tho East, Having heen o.xeoinfiiu-iii-catcA hy jlfs. Besant for this want of sufficiently ohedieiji, cjeduliry, they hav:o formed a new association of their own, ■called the Aisthfoposophieal Society, untier the presidency of fir, Rudolf Ste'iner, of Berlin. ITio following remarks Jr.; Di\ Steinor, when prcsfdont_ of flic 6ertnan section of the-'l'hesOphical -Sociotv, are. interesting t-*-"'lfc must be disJ.iii.ctls' stated that y;o wore- face to face, (i.e.., I in February, 1913) with tho fact that for. reasons of spiritual cleanliness wo could not take, part .'an a, movement like tho-. Krisluiaiiittrii niovenienil And tho Star in the. East has really to bo considered from tho point of view that, as a yoinig boy figures as president of this Star in the East, wo should sin against the spiritual current of our time if we had ■anything, to do with it. Tho father of the two boys Ims brought an action against Mrs. "Besant to get his sons back. Any (rtio.wlio toqws what tiiiiigs n-r.o hero involved, and who from his tooling; of truth oaft havo nothing fo do fl-ith what calls itself Star in tlio East, inay say in such a- case;. A bs.u'rd demands be* come horo sipilly impos'sihlo demands. For I -should lifeo to know tho person who, without being dasziecj, ha's earnest-' ):y examined the whole. Krislaianrm-ti ; affair, and still can ho a Me-mhor of tho Star in tho East:. It is iiiifrossiblo that' tins association should he allowed to exist -in a sacioty which strives after Irnth," (Fj'oiii puMish-ed minute's -of meeting of tho eleventh General Goii.senlion ef tho German section of tho T\iQosop'lijcal Society, Br. Bieinor .presiding,' He.ri.fo> February '2,1013). Dr. Stoiher's view was ondorsod by his brother tlieosophists, lawwin.g that they risked ox-. d6innmnie.ui.oii thereby., which they subsequently incurred. We may presume tliat Miss Christie k a strivcr after truth, arid thofoforo will wcleomo investJgatioM into her order Mid its doings and beliefs: Should. she hesitate', I should liko to quote Mrs, Bosaivt's own words: "If tho day of my fall ■should, come, I ask those who lova mo not to shrink from condemning my fault, not' tc attenuate it or to say Mask is white. ... A man may fall, hut oven his fall is toned to his advantage, kendheafcr has' fallen, Judge has. fal)en~-*i shall prokrtbly fall, too. But I will not rum-dor teadoeater's Karma moro .difficult hy falling black white and white Hack. And l request all _ thoso- who fovo mo not te fail in .calling h.taek bla.cb and white white., if I. fall," In conclusion, sir, may I add iha.lt t write with no : Intention of eaStiivg ridicule upon this [ now Second Adveivtist sect, jiw wishing ' in any way to hinder its lefiitiiiiato pra- : pagauda.. But as Mfes Ohfistio makes an, appeal to tho public on behalf of hoi ordoi'th,rough lectures and vopor'ts ihoro. of in the psibh'o Press, it is surely only fair to tho piiKJic that .another aspect of tho cas.o eliould tiopfoseitted. io thorn. Any fliat have been invited to join the order," as I was, on the ground that Christianity ii-vtd membership'in this or-der-of tito Star in tho East are earn-, paii Wo, and in no -way coivfetintr,, should -jranllor Sirs. Bcsau-li's worils (mated above: "fxird Jfaitreya and IvQrd Christ nro tho same, Master Jesus tS a different person. 1 ' uiid that Jvrishuamnrti is to leml his body io Jliiitroya as sFosns did in tho j>as-fc'! Forg-iv-e- inoj sir, for tre.spassi'.iiij upon j-'cinr vahtnhlo s.paco at this length-, bvit some lucidity and facts in t'hi-s inafteT anpcaj' to mo highly am, cto... H. It. HBBOAt Brooklyn, A]?rii 13, l!91i.