SPIRITUAL PROGRESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 378, 12 June 1928, Page 8

SPIRITUAL PROGRESS

Sir, — It was with some amusement that I read a letter by “Another Believer.” He is entitled to believe what he likes, but because I express different views from his he classes me ignorant. My letter was not written to draw a display of childish temper, but for thinking men and women who welcome new idea and new thought. My main idea for writing was to try to adduce proof of immortality—this proof to be taken from the Bible. It is strange how people will advocate and bolster up certain theories in direct defiance of the natural law. The natural law is that what is perishable perishes; what lives goes on. All bodies have some driving force, and in human beings it is a spirit or soul. Most religious bodies think there is a future state better than that in which we are now. We are all in different stages of spiritual development. Now, a schoolteacher would not keep a boy in the fourth standard if he were ready for the sixth. Surely God is as kind. He does not keep us in this class if we are ready for a higher service. We are born again in the spiritual world. We are the highest manifestation of God’s handiwork, and have a separate, independent spirit which retains our experiences here, reaps a reward for all good deeds, and pays for all evil done. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap.” FIRM BELIEVER.