"THE LOCAL MEDIUM."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 60, 20 June 1910, Page 2

"THE LOCAL MEDIUM."

To th e Edit or. ' ?ii'; —I very much like the Tray tlie Rev. Laird lias reversed t'lie meaning of i my remarks re spiritual and the added' "ism." Yotr will note that he has made' it to read "ism" added spiritual. Well, this proves, -as does the whole statement of liis expoundrv, that 'he is incapable of defining a moving God from an unloving God, as he is to define the meaning of the word "spiritual," and merely shows tkjt? jhe knows nothing of what spirit is, or' lie would not speak of the spirit of the dead in the manner ■of which lie has vaguely expressed himself, because, in every sense of the word, "spirit 1 ' means' "Jife," and "life" is life alßthfe'world' ! oyW.' That which is of as dead is life; that is, not vitalised to its highest form of expressed animation, i.e., he is dead, that has little vital lift; or high spiritual achievements. On the other hand, the Rev. Laird's expounding of the Scriptures represents the Demon of Darkness- (Satan), who is a form of life seizing men and women—another form of life for the mere pleasure of making them spiritually inactive, or dead which, after ail, is as stupid as some such exponents. I feel that to a degree I am talking over the reverend gentlemen's head, because he has not gone into the subjects like a [Spiritualist, but he is contented to remain 071 the thought plane of a verv imperfectly written book that -more and wiser men than the Rev. Laird have long since hopelessly failed to prove intact, i There is another matter that he hng rereferred to. That is "that the local medium is ashamed of the name his mother | gave him." Such puny statements are beside the Question. Nevertheless, as regards Spiritualism, it wants no name to support it. Neither does it want titles. It stands alone for truth, and the time is at hand when all such side play will he put to "death," or transformed to a more'vital and more "spiritual" expression, which is now rapidly in motion, viz., Spiritualism. To please the reverend gentleman's whimsical moods, I will endorse these few remarks with my full name and address, so that New Plvmouih people, as well a,9 the Rev. Lair 1 ■ ''l realise that I am not " 'vituali-ni; neither am I frightr ''sat it will interfere with bus'iif.r;. 'recnuse I believe that the people of this community of which I am one, are not so narrow-minded as the Rev. Laird would infer by his satirical remarks. In conclusion, I say that the only way in whfrh the Rev. Laird's religious expounding differs from Spiritualism in this degree—that he would force people to repentance hv fear and I ignorance, wherevfi|ii Spiritualism offers I them love and enlightenment, and challenges the world to disprove this. It I is only the biased opposed who is armed | with ignorance of its truth that has not j the spiritual sight to behold the greatness and gladness therein.—l ami etc., A. THOMPSON. . Belt Roail, New Plymouth.