GUM TREE AND ME STEVENS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3762, 18 January 1881, Page 2

GUM TREE AND ME STEVENS.

(To the Editor of the Evening Stab.) ' / Sib,—lf G. X- had waited for my third; letter he would have had enough about the end of the world, or ajje, but '"ansjrer a fool according to his folly "■ isa word of the Book I Relieve in."> -i^thoughtv G. T. was up a gum tree., instead of being a gun tree, 7 and certainly he must be in- Bible matters when-he. tells,me.~tbat X. still maintain the close approach of Une/Sta of . God .find his! second reign. WherefEopf * he find the first ?—certainly not in m^ writings or the Bible. Sir G. T., I,do mostcertainly believe in John the Apostle,' for he was inspired of Qod, while Jobn, warrants me to tell.G. T. andalliike hiitt the tratUj, whether they "will receive it or not. /G. T. .could not'help repeating the grand .truth of Paul—thank God for that, —but methinks, according to present\; appearances, that it.;w|U be sereral ages ere this dummy peraon will bow r )he knee to the Deity, and. acknowledge Lord of aU. Sir G. T r Ido J»p« to gt» home presently, and eater such a home as you cannot possibly enter with the views you now take of divine matters* and then I hope to congratulate both, John and Paul and all the other. Bible worthies, but I never expect. to : reach that home through the infernalisms ' of Demon-Spiritism, but through Christ -. Jesus—my Lord, my God, my Sing. Ai regards Mr Stevens, he knows very well;! if he knows anything about it, that E. S. was a believer in the Pagan dogma oalled

*' The Immortality of the Soul," or, in plain words—that man is a duplex being. The Spiritists believe the same ; consequently, they are one, and their foundation dogma can but lead them to the same goal — anti- Christ. I challenge Mr Stevens, respectfully, to give me one ■ingle literal passage from either the Old or New Testaments that will establish the inherent or natural immortality of man ; but I can produce hundreds to prove the •ootrary, or that man is absolutely and and altogether mortal, and that he can only attain immortality, or the other life, through Christ Jesus alone. The natural outcome of the dreams of E. S. is communion with the dead, and, notwithstanding that he says it is exceedingly dangerous to seek this communion (and with which I entirely oncur, because in ■o doing Satan and his angels get an opportunity to teach their infernal lies, and bring about their diabolical practises). Aa tothe spelling of the name of Sweden* borgf it is simply a quibble. How about the name of Shakspere p Shall I give the names of people here and in Auckland who, through reading the works of the great dreamer, have gone headlong into Demon-Spiritism? Mr Stevens must know some of them, so it is useless to contradict the fact. For this gentleman I have great respect, but none for his views.—l am, &c, w William Wood.