New-York daily tribune., 1865-11-14
The Spiritual Werld and Life After
DSafh.

| The Rev. CIiAUyCEY GILES delivered a lecture
The Spiritual World and Life after Deaib." Sunday
evening at the Cooper Institute before very large and
respectable audience. Before commencing to speak on
the subject Of his lecture he made few preliminary nc
marks concerning the nature of what Is termed the new.
or morc commonly the Swedenborgnn Church. Per.
haps said he there is Glass Of people about whom
ile is known and concerning whom all that is knOws
Is false. MS that concerning the people to whom alud"
We are not as II is generally believed, SpiIuilisB
We have less sympathy with them and our doctrines
accord less VITA them than the doctrines Of any other
church. We not hfdels; on the contrary nguiliy
of any kind OF nflelity II is 10 believing great deat
than any otter people believe. 1t is asserted that
we r cct The Bible There are no persons who believe
firmly In the Bible In the exO'dum OF his lecture
he said previous to the discovery Of America by CoutD-
bus thc-c speclatOns and theories 1oatin8
through The minds OF intelligent men concerning the eK.
itence of continent. but they were dim and un.
d. fined and tue world il perchance there one
was sha(Owed and Obscured BY clouds and doubts,
Columbus dpeed the doubts and landed the shores
Of the New World. What Columbus did for Europe
Swedenborg has done for Humanity. There has ever
been among all nations some Idel Of another world ans
another fe, oil the theories about which were conflict
Ing and unsatisfactory What 1t is, where 1t is. were
questions to which there was no Satisfactory answer
previous the time of Swedenborg. He was permitted
o VISIT the spirit world. and has brought Dack suck
evidence 10 this word that those who VIII lay aside
their prejudice and give him fair bearing can form as
good an idea of it a. did the people Of Europe
Of this country after the discovery Of Columbus SVe-
uen0Org declares t0Lt tne spllt WOru IL NOIWs
In 1t are .=ountans lakes. woods sun. an atmos-
pierre &C. but more there Is angelsp There WA
spiritual atmosphere. which the inhabitants OF the
spiritual world breathe DO tho atmosphere OF the
natural world But there IL the greatest difference be-
tween the two worlds TO their origin. Ever, thing
WE do in tits world have 10 do spiritually before we
do naturally. The Rev Mres proceeded to illustrate
this proposition, from which lie said the following three
conclusions were deducible. FIrs-The spiritual
world is real world in the full sense Of the term. with
Oh thc divisions and forms essential to world.
Secoud il is real world. II must possess quali'
ties suited to the wants Of Its inhab-
rants. and must he perfectly adapted -
the states of every individual. The objects In ie
are far more distinct and substantial to every spiritual
sense than the objects in this w0i Id nre to our natural
sense Third-Tne inhabitants Of that world consist OF
spirits both good and evil who have lived upon the
earth since ITS creation and who have passed from 10
THROUGH the gate DEATH He then proceeded to show
that these conclusions in perfect accordance WIN
III. nature Of man. and with the teachings Of the Holy
Scriptures. MeI aitemIe to escape from these con-
cusous b. ignorance ana denial, but the only answer
they 1--WE them is that they are absurd because
they are contrary their opinions Others deny tacm
i'm doctrine but they talk about standing around the
throne Of God and singing and paying on golden
huns and OF the same time they deny tnat there is
World with gold and harps and music lie next quoted
ions Of Cod Paul. 4" He knew a man who was
enught mp the third heaven &c. Mr.. Giles qoied
from tie Scriptures IN seyerd other places aud con
clued lecture with review ot the beauties ot tas
doctrines Of Swedenborg. f.f