The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-30

but only the receptacle OF the lfe" The life, which
i to ali living animals in at the air which
they breathe. TO claim this rs our own and
thereby predicate the philosophy OF . con-
tnued state OF feeling, knowledge and intelligence
beyond the grave In the face OF ali the facts bear
ing on the subject, is a stretch OF presumption
unprecedented in the history OF the race. Our con-
seriousness is not In our spirits, but in our souls
to the bosom Of Detys II the spirit were the
soul-the man-then we would be immOrtal-ay,
case and the fact Is so plain it amounts almost to
| selfevdent proposition. The soul had no existence
hs D,S creation a@ Of the Gd
living soul. 1t was not out OF the union Of spirit
with clay that the living soul born, and 1t Is so
constituted that 1t cannot exist 4 this union is
destroyed Being dependent, therefore, upon
certain conditions In the nature OF Its
eas When that oUnon TO a
argument there appears to be but one answer. II
the soul is able to set up for ITSELF without the as
own separate existence, then the side OF ORTHODOXY
looks WELL But such Is not the case. l ap.
the HERALD II there ever has been such thing as
mind operating In any way except through the
agency OF an animated brain.
| That dreams are mysterious Is granted but who
ever dreamed in state OF sound slumbers We
dream when half awake, and the sounder and
deeper the sleep the less the dreaming. When
wrapped In q state OF complete coma few visions
ever trouble us. This fact Is observable In the use
OF opiates and though ut first under their influence
during the deeper stages Of the lethargy when
they cease to cast their twilight images over the
shadowy regions Of the slumbering soul. In such a
state what II death should supervenes What think
y0u-should we come back to consciousness or
coax back kite to Its place In the clouds when
Its string Is broken than recall with all your ncanta
tions departed SOUL
1t Is true we all long for immortality But does IL
follow we are consequently immortalp Do we not
| often ardently desire what we have not nor ever
can haveS Are not those the things, indeed, that
lessons for us In the history of the past ages The
plains OF Shnar, the haunted region of the mystic
Nile ana the dreary wastes or once pOpul0us and
| nourishing countries have voices II we would but
hear them, ever reminding of our vanity and the
utility OF an our endeavors to gain the coveted
with what ayidity did the adventurous spaniards
given to CASTLE and Aragon, that fountain whose
crystal waters were said to he able to restore to
hoary age the bloom Of perpetual youth. But, alas
Tor theml they perished-sOme at sea, some In the
gades of Florida some by the t0mahawk Of the
savage and some of fever down by the brink OF the
great mississippi and not one OF them ever reached
the life-gving stream. Thus we as blindly and
futey seek for Immortality where 1t never has and
Let us no longer deceive ourselves. st. Paul
truly says God only hath immortality. Once moro
the subscriber admonishes the readers OF the
HERALD to seek 1t OF Him, and cease to boast Of
possessing what all nature and all revelation de-
clare they have not. For truly hath the poet
said
Ike the syftaying meteor-a fast flying cloud
"A naSh OF the ltghtning-a break of the
The leaves Of the oak and the willow SHAH fade
g sad high
Shall crumble to dust and together shall lie.
Is Christianity q Failure IA Reply.
70 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
Your Sunday edition being q medium through
which all sorts OF religious opinions find public ex-
preston, win offer the following in reply to the
question-"Is Christianity Failure" Unlocking for
solution Of that problem, would inquire-First,
for what purpose was Christianity introduced into
the worlds Second, To what extent has that pur-
pose been accomplished According to my under
standing OF the subject, Christianity was intro
duced for the purpose OF overthrowing the old sys
TEN Of politicoreiglous slavery and establishing a
system Of religious liberty In its stead, which would
impose no other burden nor exact the perform
ance OF other duty than the practical, Just and
would have others do to u.s." The extent to which
that purpose has been erected may be seen in the
tenn to which the Christian system was opposed,
and the miserable failure OF all attempts which
have been made to re-estabsh that system IN the
away before the future structure can be built.
JUSTICE.
The Peculiarities or Certain Preachers.
TO THE EDITOR THE HERALD
Your correspondent OF Saturday last, In his
article Hyacinthe Burke, Spurgeon and Beecher,
verges some little from actual representation Of
the qualities peculiar to each preacher, for while
each in certain sphere has some point OF great
possessed only by himself and characteristic OF
himself, he ought not to be denounced in any form
by the usual stump epthets, which, under any cir
cumstances, are poor and meagre missiles to cast
| at even the commonest human genius. Your critic
| and correspondent places more force in the prin-
cpes taught In the belief adopted and in the out
ward form of the religion enjoined than the actual
merits OF the men. That Spurgeon is clear
headed, clear-sOuled man the most ignorant admit,
and that he possesses more than ordinarily grasp
ing and intelligent mind men of all persua-
siOns fully aver; that his English pronunciation,
his language, his method and facility OF applying 1t,
and OF reducing thoughts into action and everyday
life, the more refined will now by no cans contra
diet; that, in Short he Is man and scholar of no
mean pretensions, ability, and true soul kingman-
ship, the clergy throughout England, and widely
on this Continent, have fully endorsed. Beecher
again is a powerful influence, meteoric hight, full
OF the crudest mental activity, energy soul, a
bright heavenly light, shining with splendid glare
and lighting up the darkness and mental dungeons
OF this growing Continent. Beecher will ever form
part of America is one of the four lights that have
lived in it, or been born In IT, and when the name
OF Beecher fails to have salutary effect over mems
lives and souls, better, think sink the whole Con-
THEODORE JUNIUs.
Ministerial Movements, Changes, sc.
II METHODIST
Bishop Andrews laid the corner stone OF new
church to be erected in Cazenovia last Thursday.
To-day he is to dedicate church in Millington Md.
Rev. Professor Wild, OF Albert College, Canada.
fraternal delegate from the Canadian Methodist
Episcopal Church to the late General Conference
sitting in Brooklyn, has joined the New York East
Conference and taken the pastorate OF Seventh
avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn va
Gated by Bishop Andrews Bishop Harris spent
| last week in Delaware, Ohio, among his friends OF
the Ohio WESLEYAN University, where he was once