LIFE AFTER DEATH
Sir-I agree with Archdeacon Whitehead's statement that we are pilgrims on our way to our true home. For such is mere sound Christian thinking. To those who are ever ready to brand Christian doctrine as nonsense or superstition I might quote Monsignor Fulton Sheen, who stated: "Using her reason in the council of the Vatican, she (the
Church) officially went on record in favour of rationalism, and declared, against the mock humility of the agnostics...that human reason by its own power can know something besides the contents of test tubes and retorts, and that working on mere sensible phenomena it can soar even to the ‘hid battlements of eternity,’ there to discover the timeless beyond time and the spaceless beyond space which is God, the alpha and omega of all things." That the soul will, and indeed must, survive the death of the body is demonstrable from many points of view. First, its essential structure forbids dissolution by death. Death is the dissolution of parts. Only composite things can die. The soul is not composite. Its power of pure immaterial thought proves its independence of matter. In short, the soul is a created spiritual being made in the fmage and likeness of God, the Supreme and Infinite Spirit. Truly has St. Augustine beautifully phrased the sum total of man’s reason for being born: "Thou hast made us from Thyself O Lord, and our hearts shall never rest until they rest in Thee."
ETERNAL BEAUTY
(Invercargill).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 664, 28 March 1952, Page 5
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248LIFE AFTER DEATH New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 664, 28 March 1952, Page 5
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