To the Editor of the "Nontu-Cina Datty News"
Sui—When I read Douay's pathetic letter in to-day's issue of your esteemed. journal sted up" my voice and Wwepl! Verily, his mourn ful efforts In attempting to prove that T was self-contradictory Totter of January 26 make sad read-int.
Controlling my emotions for the moment, may The allowed to ask Douay where, in my letter, did T to prove that the Kingdom of Christ is not material (not material, therefore spiritual)
When I spoke of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the frst Day of Pentecost T referred to the Church, not to the Kingdom, To confound these two eternal spiritual and at such instances we bur tears, Let, me define my terms: when 1, and other Bible students, speak of the Church we mean the spiritual Body of Christ: ""Blect according the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanetiNeation of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.,.. begotten again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance incor. vuptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth "not away, reserved in heaven," Peter: 1-2, 3, 4, This Body, "according to the' Bibte, specifically chosen by God, and ne earthly religious organization anything to do with the choice When Bible students. speak ut the Kingdom of Christ. they, according to the Scriptures, speare of a literal Kingdom itual, therefore
Chiist will) in due time sot material). Kingdom, which up, all the promises God made to Istacl and Judah will be literally. fulliled, Bible texts declaring these slovious facts are too numerous to quote.
Space forbids my saying more: I shall not answer any refutation of the above facts ax T do not wish to abuse the privileges of these columns und ive rise to a series of religious quments—which are interminable, If Dovay is not satisfied, and 1 know he ig not, T challenge him to " public oF private debate on the above two questions, using the plain pronouncements of the Bible as' the Anal Shanghai, Jan, 26.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.