SPIRITUAL RESEARCH COMMUNITY

Evening Star, Issue 19017, 12 August 1925, Page 10

SPIRITUAL RESEARCH COMMUNITY

Miss M. Code delivered a farewell address to a largo audience in the Jay Rooms on Sunday evening. There is no need to press the fact (she said) that revelation has always been proportioned to man's rapacity and colored by man’s mind. To none has complete truth been given, only so much of truth, such aspect of truth as was necessary for a particular age and people. Hence it is that the conceptions of God are various avid divergent. There is no comparison bet ween the God we know and reveal, and that God who was dimly shadowed forth to a people that knew him not. by Him who knew Him best, and lived nearest him. lie had received conceptions ol deity far clearer than any which His followers have grasped; bis religion v.as simple, plain, and earnest; His theology was equally plain. God I 5c know Him not! One day when flic spirit stands within the vale which shrouds the spirit world Irorn mortal gaze you shall wonder at your ignorance of Him. Ho is far oilier than yon have pictured Him. Wore lie such as yon have thought, He would avenge on presumptuous man the insults which He puts on his Creator. But He is other, far other than man’s poor mind can grasp. And Ho pities and inrgives the ignorance of the blind mortal who paints Him alter a self-imagined pattern. lie blames not the ignorance. That is no shame, so it be not wilful. The outcome of the revelation of Christ, which is only now beginning to ho seen amongst men, is in its truest sense the abolition nt death, the demonstration of immortality. In that great truth —man never dies, cannot die, however ho may wish it—in that great truth rests the key to the fntuve?. The immortality ot mnn, held not ns an article oi faith, danse in a creed, hut as a piece ol personal knowledge and individual experience—this is the keynote of the religion of the future. In its trail come all the grand truths we teach, all the noblest conceptions of duty, the grandest views of destiny, the truest realisations of life. • • i r Miss Colie’s mission has been a successful one, and her work in Dunedin has endeared her to many, and reflected the highest credit on the cause. She intends paying a short visit down south previous to beginning her mission work in South Africa. Solos were rendered during the services by Mrs Wilson, Miss Pearce, and Mr Kerr, which were much appreciated by those present.