VETERANS' ASSOCIATION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 249, 27 February 1911, Page 7

VETERANS' ASSOCIATION

SPECIAL MEETING. A special meeting of the New Plymouth branch of His Majesty's Veterans was held on Saturday. About fifty veterans attended. The vice-president, Col. Ellis, occupied the chair. The object of the meeting was to discuss the holding of a social re-union evening on the day of the anniversary of the province. It was decided to hold the function, and the following committee was appointed to carry out arrangements: Messrs. J. C. Da vies (chairman), Oxenham, Adlam, Wells and'Kenyon. It was resolved that members of the association have with regret to record tlie deaths of three of their late comrades, viz., Messrs. Francis Stevens, J. C. Honeyfield, and Thomas Langman, and in doing so desire to express their deep sympathy and condolence to the relatives of the deceased. The secretary was instructed to forward letters of condolence. The meeting expressed its deep sympathy with a comrade, Mr. George Sampson, who now lies dangerously ill in the New, Plymouth Hospital, and hope for his speedy recovery. The petition applying for military pensions was presented at the meeting, ana sighed by twenty-eight members;' Those sighing the petition require to be members of the association and Judders of New Zealand war medals. The petition now, ljes at Captain McKellar's office for further signaftiies: "i' "■' A hearty vote of thank 3 was passed to members of Parliament for assistance given at all times.

MRS EDDY'S RESURRECTION. An extraordinary situation has arisen out of the death of Mrs. Eddy, the Christian Science leader, owing to the fa'ct that among a large body of her followers in New York there appears to be confident expectation of her physical resurrection. It is stated that those who cherish this ' belief have addressed a protest to the directors.of the church of Boston against the mounting of an armed guard over the vault where Mrs. Eddy's body is buried. The adopted son of Mrs. Eddy and other prominent persons are doing their utmost to discountenance the resurrection movement.

Mrs. Augusta Stetson, the ex-communi-cated leader of the First Church of Christian Science in New York, declares in a formal statement her belief in the imminent resurrection in the semblance of the human form of Mrs. Eddy, .Mrs. Stetson says that the triumph over death is of the essence of Christian Science. She says, according to the Daily 'Telegraph:— "1 am watching and waiting for the demonstration by Mrs. Eddy of herself in the semblance of a human form. It may be to-day, it may he next week, it may not be until twenty years from now; but even for twenty years I will wait, confident in the ntliniatc proof by her of her triumph over death. 1 know it will come. I know it must come. "I believe that when the undying mind loses the earth-thought, or the body, as you would say, it passes slowly from the lleshly concept to the purely spiritual. I believe that Mrs. Eddy will demonstrate herself before she has made this transition. Then she will .still have the appreciable aspect of the material, so that she can be seen by the eyes of men.

"Those who have sufficiently elevated themselves so as nearly to approach the spiritual, leaving the material concepts behind them, will be the first to see Mrs. Eddy, but the whole world shall be a witness to her demonstration in the end."