CONDITIONAL IMMORTALITY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 467, 30 April 1890, Page 5

CONDITIONAL IMMORTALITY.

Auckland, April 28. _ The question of Conditional Immortality is evidently eternal. Air Varley and Mr Aldridge have each had another attempt to convince the public that they are possessed of the solution. Air Varley spoke on the subject on Saturday evening in the City Hall. He devoted the main part of an hour to pulling his opponents to pieces. He said that the supporters of the doctrine of “ Conditional Immortality ” were very much divided amongst themselves. Some believed one thing and others another. He enumerated the chief points to which his opponents pinned their colours, and then proceeded to demolish them entirely to his own satisfaction and, presumably, that of the large audience. The Destructionists and the Restitutionists were, in his opinion, representative of entirely opposing conditions. They consumed one another so far as argument was concerned. Alanifestly both factions could not be right. Which was then ? Were they not both wrong, and was not the truth to be found in the everlasting principles contained in God’s holy Word ? During the week people had poured in texts on him relating to the mortality of man’s soul. The senders maintained that they proved that the soul would die. All the passages were taken from the Old Testament and referred in almost every case to temporal, earthly, and bodily judgments. They belonged to a dispensation long since closed, and the words depended on to prove conditional immortality were utterly out of the court of argument. After replying to the supporters of the other side and their arguments for a long time, Air Varley gave a brief explanation of his own views on the subject, citing a number of New Testamen t texts in support of his arguments.