will notice that no question is raised as to what anybody has believed, but only as to the works which he has done.”

In this connection, we think that it is advisable to quote from the address of a well known English churchman upon this important subject.  The gentleman in question is The Ven.  Archdeacon Colley, Rector of Stockton, Warwickshire, England, who said: 

“In the realm of the occult and transcendental, moved to its exploration from the Sadducean bias of my early days, I have for the best part of half a century had experiences rarely equaled by any, and I am sure, surpassed by none; yet have they led me up till now, I admit, to no very definite conclusions.  With suspension of judgment, therefore, not being given to dogmatize on anything, and with open mind I trust, in equipoise of thought desiring to hold an even balance of opinion ’twixt this and that, I am studious still of being receptive of light from every source—­rejecting nothing that in the least degree makes for righteousness, hence my taking the chair here tonight, hoping to learn what may help to resolve a few of the many perplexities of life, to wit:  Why some live to the ripe old age of my dear father while others live but for a moment, to be born, gasp and die.  Why some are born rich and others poor; some having wealth only to corrupt, defile, deprave others therewith, while meritorious poverty struggles and toils for human betterment all unaided.  Some gifted with mentality; others pitiably lacking capacity.  Some royal-souled from the first naturally, others with brutal, criminal propensities from beginning to end.

“The sins of the fathers visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation may in heredity account for much, but I want to see through the mystery of a good father at times having a bad son, as also of one showing genius and splendid faculties—­the offspring of parentage the reverse of anything suggesting qualities contributive thereto.  Then as a clergyman, I have in my reading noted texts of Holy Scripture, and come across passages in the writings of the Fathers of the Early Church which seem to be root-thoughts, or survivals of the old classic idea of re-incarnation.

“The prophet Jeremiah (1:5) writes, ’The word of the Lord came unto me saying, before I formed thee, I knew thee, and before thou wast born I sanctified thee and ordained thee a prophet.’

“Does this mean that the Eternal-Uncreate chose, from foreknowledge of what Jeremiah would be, the created Ego of His immaterialized servant in heaven ere he clothed his soul with the mortal integument of flesh in human birth—­schooling him above for the part he had to play here below as a prophet to dramatize in his life and teaching the will of the Unseen?  To the impotent man at the Pool of Bethesda, whose infirmity was the cruel experience of eight and thirty years, the Founder of our religion