CORRESPONDENCE

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 May 1916, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE

i On: correspondents' opinions ale their own; the responsibility of editorial yue» makes suilicieut ballast for the editor's shoulders.j SPIRIT C ALI.SM. (To the Editor.) Sir, -My contributions 'from time to time bearing on and. combatting Spiritualism and its' pretensions have only been actuated by an honest ouiuiou, and., 1 trust, an open mind. Nowadays, charlatans andi empirics appear to thrive and abound in this fair country. New Zealand has 'become the dumping ground or fieldi oT exploitation' oif undesirables, who by the sterner methods employed in older countries, come under the category of ionics and vogabiindfi. And. Sir, it is ip to me, you or anybody else with stronger will to protect the weaker-minded (who become a.n easy prey to such bipeds) from their falling lower in Mio moral or real spfntual seaie It is not logical, or to the purpose, that a writer who has a detestation of cheats and frauds should simply obtain a reply. "T hear he is a religions fanatic." I may be pardoned if 1 say that if the scriptural governance of man wan fulfilled (shorn of cani.t and hypocrisy) in our day, this would; be a miracle. Britain, European aud other states have 'based their moral "code on the precept* of the book of Books, and though the professing Christian nations are apparently fulfilling the antithesis of its interpretation by their presant action, who is prepared to aver that such action can modify or filter the existing power of (to me) the inspired "word" contained therein? T tako it, nations, like individuals, are subject, or shoniid be, to the spirit of chastening. In concluding, the references to the familiar spirits, diviners, etc., in its pages and their reward are plentiful. In what way do the Spiritualistic homitnigs differ from those ol old time? As it is written, sinners against their own souls. Mr Driver's • letter will follow in due course.—l am •te., W.M.F. RECRUITING Sir, —What do you think of the ioiloiving suggestion to aid recruiting, I if our recruiting officers in each district could give a fist of names of all young men of 20 years aud over, who have not given in their names, and .get the loual papers in each district to publish a "shirkers' list" every week, giving names, of course,' ol any young man who lias been rejected, and whoso name, would not appear on the list.— 1 am, etc., FAIR DI ES. ( I'.S.—l think we could also odd to the same 'nist any young man who has taken unto himself a wife during the last twelve months, and has not handed in his name.