CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 171, 21 July 1871, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

*** "We are desirous of affording every reasonable facility for the discussion of public subjects; but it must be understood that we are in no way responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. To The Editor of the Nelson Evening Mail. Sir, — Would you kindly allow a short space in reply to your correspondent " Churchman," on his remarks on the letter of your correspondent "8.J." He says what implies much in little, and to argue out the question woula 1 extend my reniarksto. such a length as to preclude-its insertion in your valuable paper. /To be For remainder of news see fourth pahe.

brief I may remark that amongst the human family there are, and have been, grand minds, great minds, noble minds' fine minds, as also small and contracted minds, a regular gradation from the highest to the lowest. In all my readingj and I have read a little, I have found that the men of greatest mind, of most powerful intellect, have held the dogma that mind is immortal, cannot be annihilated j cannot cease to be. Sir Isaac Newton, for instance, Lord Bacon, and' a whole host of. the greatest minds which England has produced. That annihilation, thai cold, icy, soul freezing dogma, as far as .mind is concerned, is an impossibility ; that mind is as immortal as the great first cause, the Eternal Spirit himself. Socrates, the preacher of social reason and the Apostle of practical logic, scouted the idea of the soul's annihilation, tbougli a stranger to the Bihle ; Pythagoras, also a stranger to the Bible, taught the immortality of the soul ; Aristotle could see that mind was not of earth, or any creature of space or time. A poetical summary of the pre-Socratic Philosophy enJs with : Cause never dwelt in aught of sensuous kind ; sole, first and last of all that is, and was, and yet shall be in Heaven and earth is mind. The Bible, tc these ancient and noble sages, these philosophers of ancient days, was a bools unknown. Can the infidels or free thinkers deny mind in man, when he can do this (an utter impossibility) he may then persuade a believer in the Bible thai annihilation is possible. We who believe in the Bible hold that the spirit or mind in man which corresponds to and perceives the Eternal mind or spirit is part of its essence, and immortal as it is immortal. Yours, &c, A Wesleyan.