Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1841-06-29
State Convention -To-morrow, let it be remembered.
IMMORTALITY.


Who lives that the subject of nj serious re-
Elections upon his destiny mmor tai being-and who
not often exercised with strange sensations of and
terror when he reflects upon the fact that
being, amending existence eniaed upon him, and that
from this existence, his Maker himself can re-
lease him. Christian writer's often alude the immortal
iiy Of the soul most consolng reflection and in imag
ination expand its unncumbered wings for flights which
even fancy itself parakes largely of mortality apprehe nd
The grandeur and sublmty of the reflection maintained
while the dreadfunessthe eaTulness of it is forgotten.
Man, when contemplated immortal being, must be
taken as he is-not he might haze been had he
snned If we eAutingy expaate upon his expansive
paces for enjoyment must also mber he equally
adapted for an increase of suffering If rejoice that
he moral agent and can, he will, attain blessed
mortality should also remember that by far the MAORI
ty Of his species will abuse this very endowment work
them eternal sorrow.
Ii is true, individual who daily enjoys a conscious.
that boundess paadsean eternal pastime ofplea
sureles just beyond the landmarks of sensible things
that he is restrained from its for the present and
required TO perilsome probation for purposes
which he cannot now understand but which shall be dem
onstraed when uneteTed with the clogs of mortality his
emanclpated spirit begins its song of ubeewe say,
true he may rejoice that period will in the
everlasting succession OF ages when he shall be-
But what from the cause be the reflections of
that for whom such eysum prospect paints its at
fractions in the dim future? To him. his present
is but one tosome struggle to proac painful existence
An existence which he is soicous to protact only 10
delay the consummaton Of a dreadful something beyond
The grave And yet, he knows the must come when
Pallatves will no longer avail but he hush his NOR.
tai umus in the silent grsve-but alas his bling ends
NOT Death, to him. awful sentence from the AL.
mighty to dnse his being by killing the material part to
give the mmateral faculties suffer immortal pains
iemmed in On all sides by incl able cuties lost
and bewidered in labyrinth OF human theories
ard metaphysical contrarietles with disposition to
come to the searching light of the gospel shoulder
cross 10 win the crown, and nationally nothing
save the gloomy Sadness the horrors of his own
condition. how can he appreciate the Christians feelings
when contemplating the ndesructbe fabric of his secret
soul'
How various soeyer the spiritual condition Of individuals
none can fly the consciousness of possessing an und wing
part The atheist, less than the Christian however
unwilling he TO he conscious Of his know ledge knows
ana ieels That he rs immortal One has the evidence
his Immortality in joyous antcpaons of good to come
The other has in the fearful bodings the trembling an
Pfehensons OF dread, undefnabe evil that shroues in
gloom his prospects Of immortality. One looks 10 his
transit into eternity with the feelings exile returning
10 long loved home;-the other behods only az Tho
dreadful ordeal through which he is driven 10 pass 10 tax
up his still dreadful existence beyond Each have
proofs though of widely different nature dawn from
the same sourcebCth drink the but one
drinks nectar and the other gall.
Hence the lsbored suicidal attempts Of an in ouieied
m'nd 10 nd itself OF its conviction ofimmorta,y Having
no goody prospect in hope he casts his despafnp
INTO ms narrow house and "bere viii lay this care
worn being down to take its long its everlasting
No resurrection shall revive its s,sgnsnt pool of life
or call back TO consciousness Soul and body both
here unending rest obtain, There is no God but Rea
SON death is eternal Sleep But so fully has the
Almighty stamped his seal humanity that every power
and passion Of his soul Insncvy rises up IN indgna,on
TO rsPel the assault and assert its immortaliiy-is affinity
Will eternity su though conscious Of the truth its re-
fnonsifsnee IL indsnety heard wifuy rejected and
The uhhsp?y soic eompel' an unwilling consent Of his
own ieehngs 10 isVoTaby receive the cole icy
Of his creed that the grave shall prove an everlasting e.,
ingPlAee Tor his snTous Suffering bsing-that the amp
Of life and Consciousness forever when th
heart fergets ,s Pusanons and h. vital fluid r.. n ~
Joufn'es through the in,ricseies Of the system