FUTURITY.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 33, 28 August 1888, Page 3

FUTURITY.

" The mind within itself and of itself can make Heaven of Hell or Hell of Heaven." — MILTOX. TO THE KDITOR OF THE SIAK. Sir, — I noticed with regret that in his address the other evening Mr Gordon Foriong, astute and scholarly though he undoubtedly may be, descended to that widespread and popular Christian delusion which has caused more thinking young men to relapse into atheism or scepticism than all the freethought literature ever published. To a youngster who begins to think for himself it is a painful thing to see his elders and his betters, his present types and illustrations of Christianity, endeavouring to distort their reason into believing that the soul, the mind, the thought, or what else we term it, can be located or even affected directly by physical causes. Can a man burn another's charity with a cinder or freeze his hatred with au ice block ? Much less will he be able to torture his thoughts with literal fire. But I almost forget: that the argument is long since forsaken by intelligent men, and only wish to remind Mr Foriong -of the harm it does to intelligent bids and lasses, who even in childhood see through its absurdity. I am astonished that he even mentioned such a theory as location of mind after death. Our 44 thought" flies from the earth to the suu and the galaxy beyond at will. What then can cm tine it when it quits the trammels of this body. — I am, &c, "?"