The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-10-31

theoretical and still greater practical denial
or this truth. This denial may lead men
to the belief that the brute may hereafter
have q spiritual existence as man has. But
II is stl more likely TO lead 10 the belief that man.
after death, goes down to nome existence Ike the
beast. mans brain may be like that OF q chin
panzee, but 1t IL not the outward shape or organl.
zation but the achievements OF each which - to
decide this matter. The sheep and the goats have
similar conformation OF heads, but tho former
is stupid and the latter an intelligent
animal. The elephant has brain very
unlike, In shape and organism. that OF
very Ike, IN form, that OF man. Yet the
elephant mas an intelligence much more Ike that OF
man than is that Of the monkey. The brute has
been always the same, ana transmits only the same
Instincts which have characterized his species
throughout all time. Man, on the contrary, has ad.
yanced age by age from barbarsm to higher and
higher civilization, ard with q wonderful power
which shows an ever active ana ever progressive
brain. Ihe forces which inspire men are inward
no matter how outward ana material the oDJect
may be.
OF this age II, indeed very striking, ana IS one OF
those things against which we nave caroiuHy 70
guard But, amid all this maerlallsm, the number
OF those who feel the inward 1nnuehco OF IeIGIou
are not few and whose inner life Is rich anu pure
and true. We have seen men In history carrier
aw ay too far by spiritual ana saIahsey ineepye ~
sorption in religious lie. But TINS ascelism Pc
louaed former age rather than 10 ours, ana u ~
inposslble 10 recall the past. All the Saints VI
ali time were those VINO lived an inner ne
ana had care for their sonls. And the lives OF
such men surely compensate largely Tor the TOO pre-
vallug matenesm OF our age. There Is no earthly
power which VIII not fail. Youth Is perisnable and
cannot be renewed. The decay or our mortal con-
sttution not 10 be regarded as someth ng ALTO.
gether hdeous. There Is a teo der aspect to be
taken OF ii.
TO DECAY AND PERISH
II, after all and despite all the result or oil human
materialistic ambition. And has God, we may In
deed ask ourselves, given US these wonderful
powers OF mind merely TO be spent In ac-
eumulafing what must surely pershf man
who for!eis God may, Tor time, leai more honor
able life Than some who are swayeI by religious In
1uence. But this forgetuness OF God VIII produce
Its inevitable result and naturally noble mind will
become utterly bound IN the perishable things OF
this life.
THE WINGS OF RELIGION
are love and faith and with these man Will
triumph over oil the crumbling OF whatever
material prosperity he may have been sur:
rounded with. God symDolizes the e1ect
OF love by pointing 10 us the example
OF the exhaustless aud untlring s0llctude and
energy OF q. mothers loye, When the day OF trial
arrives and our bodily weakness seems evident
what can sustain Us but love and faith in God! " Is
this love ana laith which brings about
THE RENEWAL OF ISwARD LIFE.
There are those who have what they call faith 80
long they are prosperous, but their faith falls
them when the hour Of trial comes. True faith
mounts higher and higher amid vlclssltudes and
ca antilles, ana leads us in triumph TO that heaven
which Is the true object OF the souls ambition.