SAYINGS FROM THE PULPIT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8115, 21 May 1906, Page 2

SAYINGS FROM THE PULPIT

TO THE EDITOB. Sib, —The question has often been raised, Has a subscriber a mht to object to milter printcl in the paper he supports ? Maybe so, in lybe not. But allow me lirst to say I became a subscriber solely through the excellence of several of your lei ling articles, anl generally sensible ideas on questions of the day. And tli'ii ask you, WhyP Oh, why to print in I. circulate suoh absurdities as tlu remarks by the Bishop of London during a sermon on " What Death is Liko." That His Lordship suffered insensibility, and that often, can be easily conceded, without his taking an aiiffistlietie, but that when under its influence he should feel and think others Feel, when " out of the body," iinoousr;io is from accident or illnoss, "swept swiftly under (or over?) the stars towards your God," passeth understanding. Further on, this same Bishop says, " Satan was probably a fallen spirit who was once good." Now as the Church teaches "Sin cannot enter Heaven," how did the good spirit fall P When the Bishop becomes a good spirit, what guarantee is there that ho will not fall also P Greater bosh than this sermon could hardly be spoken by Dowie or the Maori prophet Eua. Too much attention is now being paid to pulpit sayings, showing a degradation of the brain power of the people, which will' lead, in not so many decades, to another ago of darkness and superstition. —I "am, etc., COUP DE Pmjme.