SPIRITUALISM.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 May 1916, Page 3

SPIRITUALISM.

• (To The Editor.) Sir, T • 1 am quite uonte&i; to; i**fc • W.M.P-. take {he cane. qutCb welcome to it. Neither do 1 wish to intrude my opinions in your eolunns. Bother let me give to youi_ readers ■ "what eminent men hare declared. This will open, the -eyes ol many on the great question : <rf •ptritu«lwn. 1 ■will at present oonJiii© myself to wlivt churcli leaders say.—Yours, etc., W. C. NATION. ' At a Church Congress t>he Biahop of London said:"Look tip from the heat end struggle of tine stadium to the tiers after tiers of spectators who 'ook down. on the canflioE. they once kn«w *» well. Tliey are, there in their millions and 'fensr of millions. ... It Tvonl l (fttehathen the • lino i nioi o" thai we know if -we thought, • niori: of those iMjblo soiris /wth«i still think of us, fetill pray for us, auu fti 11 lovo us. . ; . 1 would plead, then, for' a revival in the church..-of, Bfbe>ief in tlio great doctrine of the communion of taints." The Kev. C. H. Laws ,at the New Zealand Meth dist ; Conference,' few years ago, said': "Ihere ore front rank men aimongst u« who maintain that we have incontiovertiblo evidence that there is persistence of tlie soul after dea/th.'' itev. Arthur Chambers (Churoh of .England) recently yuid: "The Ohriafchn Oburcn is based on the fact that- there has been, and is, comnmnioaitipn lie. tween the spiritual world a/nd oh is world. Take away that, and your Christian religion collapses like a pack of cards. ... The late General Booth, in the War Cry, October 2, 1897, Baid: ""I have a spiritual communion with tlie departed saints that .is not without JbotOi -ati»faction andi service, and especially of j late the memories of thoee with whom my heart has had the choicest com- " m union in. the past, il not, tlhe very beings themselves, have come in upon me' ae X 'hiavn sait «t -my deek or Wb watchful in the night season. Amongst thesd, one form, true to 'her mission, comes more frequently than all beside, assuring me of her continued partner' ship in my struggle. for the temporal and eternal salvation of the multitudes , aiad that is my blcseed and beautiful wife "

[This correspondence is now eiosed.--Edit«r GhronicJe.l •