CORRESPONDENCE

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 May 1916, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE

rOur correspondents' opinions are their owu; ti;e responsibility of editorial ouas ma Kes su dicient ballast for the editor's shoulders.j SPIRITUALISM. (To the Editor*. Sir,—Mr W. C. 'Nation has at' last condescended to reply. Reference is made by him to recriminations, hatred, and malice. neither, hut such is beeido tlio point, Mr -N. being the local representative of this ism, rfiust naturally receive the criticism, This ism was to supersede Christianity and existing churches, vide his own panegyric, when he was oditor of The Chronicle. ?ti"r N., as a private individual, has a perfect rig|ht to his own belief, hut wiieu he declaims publicly <>r through the" "Message ot Life" he oversteps. Partly 011 church behalf., and also for poor credulous humanity, .[ cannot coincide the superseding business by such a travesty as lie represent-; -far-fetched as it sounds, without a,, decision (once end for all) to try conclusions on behalf of truth and righteousness. As 1 act from a point of faith," no conjuror is needed for mo to lean upon. I hereby challenge Mr "VV. C. Nation, president of the Now Zen-land' Association of Spiritualists, per the local preas or public platform, to show causc, or the why and wherefore that tins ism exists, or is tolerated. 'before Almighty God and the children of men of our day and generation. • This challenge to stand 1 open to the Ist diay of June, 1916, include, In the eveint of non-acceptance hy Mr Nation he shall make it Els duty to no more make public reference to his private belief and henceforth hold his pence thereto.—Your/ etc. TV.. iM. FINLAYSON. Levin, May 23rd, UJI6.