DR. DALE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 34, 10 February 1891, Page 8

DR. DALE.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —A correspondent of the Star asks to be informed about Dr. Dale—is he a believer in conditional immortality, etc. ? As 1 have for long intimately known Dr. Dale and his predecessor, Angell James, perhaps I may bo allowed very briefly to answer. There is so7ne truth in it ; but he keeps that crotchet on the shelf. I think they should say Christian agnostics, for it really seems presumption to state decisively what the Eternal God will do 10,000 years hence. '* What we know not now, wo shall know heroafter." I see the aristocratic Nonconformists wink at the fad of condi-ionalism, providing only they are sound as an acorn on all evangelical points. —I am, etc., W. E. Sadler. Thursday.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Kindly permit me space in your valuable paper to reply to your correspondent " Congregationalist's " inquiry re Dr. Dale's " theological views." The Rev. R. W. Dale, D.D., minister of Carr's Lane Congregational Church, Birmingham, successor to the saintly and renowned pastor, John Angel James, and President-elect of the International Congregational Council, is a believer in the doctrine commonly known as " conditional immortality," and he has hold and publicly taught ib in his ministry for many years past. Nor is Dr. Dale singular in holding this doctrine, as it is held by a large number of leading Congregationalist ministers, notably the Rev. Edward White, ex-President of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, Rev. S. Minton (Baptist), and many others, not to speak of thousands of laymen connected with the Congregational body, while the Anglican Church contains a vast number of clergy and laymen, both in England and the colonies, who also hold and teach conditional immortality, in common with many leading divines belonging to other bodies of professing Christians. —I am, etc., A Primitive Catholic.