THE DIGGER'S LETTER BOX.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 32, 22 October 1920, Page 8

THE DIGGER'S LETTER BOX.

GAVIN BRIGHTON.

GAVIN BRIGHTON.

RETURNED SOLDIER.

REPLY TO REV. MACLEAN. CRITICISMS OF THE CHURCH— ARE THEY JUSTIFIED? (To the Editor).

Question asked by Rev. Hector Maclean in St. Andrew Church, Dunedin, and reportpd in "The Digger," of 15th : — I answer yes, because the Bible, both the Old and New Testament, are the embodiment of common sense, which the churches have, by their teachings, caused the people who think to treat it with contempt as nonsense. Robert Burns has handed down to us in his poems his contempt for church teachings. As the Rev. Maclean has taken Matt. 16-18, for his text, I here offer to him the Parson's five pound note (£5) and any one else that will produce a dictionary meaning that Sheol, Hades, or Hell, means a place, the proper meaning

of these words are the unseen state. So that our Lord used the word hades in accordance with common sense. Because that through Death we enter into the unseen state and in that state we (those who believe in Jesus) sleep until the resurrection. Our Lord overcame death, therefore he is the resurrection and the life which all may attain by be-lieving. See John 1. 12, also Galatians 3rd and 26. Rab, in Tara O Shanter says, "Ah, Tam, Ah Tam, you'll get your ferrin. In hell they'll rost you like a fyerrin." To make this more in accordance with church teachings I add a little common sense and say neither like a herrin or a trout for when you're there you'll get your ferrin. In hell they'll roast churches restrain ancl check the forces of evil. As a digger, let us dig down and uproot superstition.

Nightcaps, October 16, 1920. JACQUES "A.," AND A CRITIC TELEPATHY : WHAT IS IT AND HOW IS IT WORKED? / 1 * (To the Editor.) \' Sir, — Re "A.'s" reply to Jacques in "Digger" of 8th October. Can either Jacques or A. answer the above. I hope A. will not be offended because I have written Jacques' name first, it is applicable to either. But the case was different when the offer was made to Joseph Mc6abe. He, as user of the telepathic

hypothcsis, is first singLed out and his name mentioned, then the offer is extended to any one else. Is telepathy capable of being demonstrated under test conditions ? I say no. So the party who made J. McC. the offer is on safe ground. Telepathv, as I understand it, is a means j by which two persons can, without visible ! mean of communication, let the other know that the other is in great stress or' trouble although the one may not be able to state in what form the trouble has over taken the other. The stress so acts on the troubled one, and both being in unison or tungd to the same pitch, acts on the other, thtrefore they have what is termed telepathy. But both must be living and active and conscious at the time when the one is acting on the tender emotions of the other, else there is no telepathy. Some may confound telepathy with spifitualism. They are two different things, the one is natural wliile the other is outside of nature, therefore supernatural. Keep away from superstition please — it has no foundation. Spiritualism is demonstratable, therefore so many of our well learned men have had to acknowledge certain facts because they were not acquainted with certain active forces or bodies worki«g out the will of the overruling power, which governs this earth, so some of them have fallen to try and purge and make them clean. Jacques ought to apologise to A. for having misquoted him in re Conan Doyle's spiritualistic incidents by saying, "AU came easily within the scope of the telepathis hypothesis." Whereas A. only claims a partial success. I hope when Sir Conan Doyle comes here to lecture he will be able to face the music and show who these Elohim were. See the attached which, under cover of my letter to him of date 28th December, 1919, was sent to him. — -I am,

etc.,

Nightcaps. WANTED, Sir A. C. Doyle and his clerica.1 critics to study the Hebrew word Elohim — who they were, what they did in their part to make this earth habitable for man. Elohim is wrongly translated "God" as meaning a triune God. — Gavin Brighton.

THE AMBULANCE. (To the Editor.) Sir, — I wish to reply to Mr A. Stean's letter, regarding the charge for the use of the ambulance. I am prepared to admit that petrol and oil are very costly. He s4ys the rates per mile are the same as those charged by the t-axi drivers, but why did he not say through the paper or in the account. that the charge was per mile or per hour. The bill 1 received for £1 14s, I repeat, was exorbitant. I fought for my country and wa^ wounded and when I came back started in a modest way as a settler and when my wife became ill I was treated in this way. One would think from the charge made that I was made of moey. I consider a slur has been cast on me by the writer of the letter, especially when it is consider, ed that after I had been to the police he told me that the driver wanted to make some money out of it. Mr Stean says the woman was fully dressed and did not seem to be ill, but she certainly was ill and could not get out of bed, or dress herself without a neighbour's assistance. It was not a suitable case to he removed by train to hospital, where she still is under treatment. — I am, etc.,