THAT £500 OFFER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 372, 5 June 1928, Page 10

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 extra - vagantly foolish, though apparently generous, offer made by the Interna(Cpntinued 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 o: humanity irrespective of their religious persuasion which, to my way of thirlcing, is not essential to acts of charity br the uplifting of mankind. Now, in regard to the quests whether it clearly states in the Bihk that “man has an immortal soul.’ I must confess that I do not know, neither am I in the least interested to .knot, for, I do not accept the Bible as bee; anything more than a collection c: books written by man at differ-r: periods. That certain portions of tb ; Scriptures were inspired by high*? intelligences I will not dispute, but the flowing of the fount of divine inspiretion surely did not begin and end writhe Bible. It is the question whether the soul survives the death (disintegration) of the physical body that is occupying the minds of thinkers now But, neither material science nor worship will ever solve the problem •satisfactorily. If we would know the t;:uth about the soul’s survival, we m:first of all discard false doctrine arw look fearlessly at things from onto a different angle; otherwise we m*u continue coming out "by the same d<xf as in we went.” W. J. COLLIER.