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logions. No one but the individual himself can be blamed for his wrong doing. Are not the courts of Law of your United States founded on the ideas of justice? Will any Judge sitting on she throne of justice be justified in accepting the death--the voluntary suicide of Mr. B. as the proper retribution for the murder committed by Mr. A? And if he does that, will not the same Judge be arraigned before a superior Court having knowingly abetted the suicide of B? And still we are asked to believe that the guilt of one man can be washed by the suffering pf another.
But the doctrine of re-incarnation assists us most when we look at the inequality and injustice and evil of the world and seek for solution. Why is one man born rich and the other poor. Why is one man born in Central Africa among the cannibals and the other in the peaceful part of India. Why is Queen Victoria born to rule over territories on which the Sun never sets and why is a labourer of Burma born in Burma to work as a slave in an Englishman's tea-garden. What is the cause of this apparent injustice ? Even those who belive in the personal creator of the universe must belive in this doctrine of re-incarnation in order to exonerate God from the charge of maliciousness. And now let us see if the Bible of Christendom assists in upholding this doctrine. In the proverbs of Soloinon we find
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