OUR LETTER BOX

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 258, 4 November 1904, Page 4

OUR LETTER BOX

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| r . WHAT IS TRUTH ?

| (To the Editor.) j. Sir,—ln your report of the public 'feeamcc held on Friday night last, ,you displayed a remarkable disregard for facts, and nS you are well' Cltware ihat there is no religion hiighfgr. than truth, kindly allow me to Ptate just a Kttle of the proceedings, ph the first 1 place, thene were more pjthan one or two visitants from the jjptral plane, and the fluent!, logical (addresses on the: '''Hereafter" were Astounding in the convincing way fundamental principles of existTwice there were placed before the intelligent, attentive audience by the (.Various speakers controlling. The jWiadom contained in the description of spirit life generally was stamped liWidi iae hall mark of truth and aPfjrealodto the inmost nature of all present. The regret on your part Jhat "a most respected ex-Premier Was overwhelmed with modesty," glows that he has gained a deeper Insight into human nature than hiithtoto, and the heavenly fear of laeing •further misreported "by someone wh 0 Sfas not present" prevented irim from Speaking through the "medium," and |s*a proof that mundane affairs are feeniy watched and criticised even those who have passed on to |l>ftt plane of expression where tihcy Way enter into the profound secrets fit human and divine knowledge. ~ In {the worlds of an inspired speaker I Should draw your attention to the iinarkod decline of civic couraige in ihis progressive- age. One of the 'jnost mdancholy features of our jtlme is the decline of civic courage. <Men -dare not speak out, or art up their opinions, lest they coine unifier the few of some occult and glamorous authority "a l a Hudson," jrhich temporarily gets astride of Re public mind and terrorises the simid. Away with guch effeminancy, jNone of us can plead any warrant i.for winking at delusions. We have Received no permission to ftirt with lateehood. We have no command to jground arms and stand at ease in jthe presence of untruthfulness. We Sire hound to set our faces as a flint

pgainst terror, and make our lives |4ell in the advancement of what we Relieve to be tHe truth. Don't be to be in the right with two or *three. Fix yourselves firmly on the granite of conviction, look the whole jworM in the face, and aay your say [bven if the whole city is against «you. It is nobler to side with "truth and sh a re her crust, "before ■hei; cause-brings fame and it is pro»Jperousto be just," But where you Speak or write your thoughts fearlessly, do so without anger, without jMuster, awl without throats. And phe liberty you claim for yourselves rgive to others.—l am, etc., !: - SPIRITUALIST.