THE AFTER LIFE
NEITHER HEAVEN NOR HELL. BISHOP CROSSLEYiS BELIEF. Auckland, April 4. "People don't go to Heaven when they [ die, or to Hell, either," was a remark made by Bishop Crossley in a midday address to men. It was a popular belief, , lth.9 BistbJop said, but if it were true where would be the moral of a day of judgment long afterwards ? "Oh, no," he continued, ( "■when we come to the root of things the old Church is never far wrong. People, when they die, don't go to Heaven or Hell, but depart to a state where they may be with Christ, and who can tell but that in that long state of waking the ■truth that was darkened here, the life that was so cruelly wrong, may be set, right? There is nothing to warrant it, Ibut, thank God, there is nothing to say that it is impossible. The Church of God is always praying for her dead, and the man'that thinks it popish or superstition to kneel down and pray for his blessed m'other loses one of the wealths of intercession. I pity the man. It is not purgatory, but we. do believe in never leaving out of our prayers those whom' we' love." ...
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 240, 10 April 1912, Page 3
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207THE AFTER LIFE Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 240, 10 April 1912, Page 3
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