THAT £500 OFFER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 372, 5 June 1928, Page 9

THAT £SOO OFFER

Sir, — It was extremely kind of your correspondent, J. D. Reid, to make inquiries, on my account, to ascertain correctly what the three religious bodies, to which he refers, teach regarding the future destiny of the; human soul. But, had he perused my letter in The Sun (Tuesday, May 29} ■with an unbiased mind, he need not have gone to the trouble and it is quite possible that he would have had revealed to him the fact that it referred particularly to the most extravagantly foolish, though apparently generous, offer made by the Interna(Continued in Next Column.)

tional Bible Students, and furthermore, he might also have discovered that I referred to the Little Sisters of the Poor, the Rev. Jasper Calder and the officers of the Salvation Army, and others, as workers in the cause ot humanity irrespective of their religions persuasion which, to my way of thinking, is not essential to acts of charity br the uplifting of mankind. Now, in regard to the question whether it clearly states in the Bibk that “man has an immortal soul.'' 1 must confess that I do not know, neither am I in the least interested to km* for, I do not accept the Bible as b«ir: anything more than a collection c: books written by man at dlfTerec: periods. That certain portions of tfc* Scriptures were inspired by higher intelligences I will not dispute, but lv. flowing of the fount of divine insp.ration surely did not begin and end wiv the Bible.' It is the question whethc the soul survives the death (disintegration) of the physical body that u occupying the minds of thinkers now But, neither material science nor Biy* worship will ever solve the pror. - satisfactorily. If we would know t - truth about the soul's survival, wemnr. first of all discard false doctrine and look fearlessly at things from «V ! ' a different angle: otherwise we sn?a continue coming out “by the same c .r as in we went.” „ w. j. collie: