"STRANGE DEATH PACT."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20993, 2 October 1931, Page 12

"STRANGE DEATH PACT."

Sir, —I wish to challenge the statement of Mr. Campbell that faith in spiritualism is tragic. I have been a Bible student for sixty years, and an out-and-out spiritualist for well over thirty, and am well acquainted with the books quoted by your correspondent. Quoting an author takes one nowhere. It is the individual experience that counts. James Too matii.

Sir, —I have as little time for spiritism as I have for annihilationism, because both are contrary to all Scripture. And after more than three-quarters of a century experience and observation of the careless remarks often heard as.to eternity I am convinced that the theories of " conditional immortality—annihilationism," of "no judgment to come," "no eternal punishment," "no lie]!," for the impenitent, are accountable for quite as many suicides as "spiritism." But when an apostle of " conditionalism " uses a newspaper report of a most lamentable, occurrence in Australia to "boost" his theories by quoting seven words from the middle of verse five of Ecclesiastes, chap. 9, he must be asked to " crack the nut " of the closing words of the same verse by applying them to those of their own Church who have passed away in their faith, as their teachings are expressed in their publication from West Street. Enough Said.