The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-11-29

bones of bird, the body and tail OF q mamma
| the wings of bat with spread OF from niteeI
| to eighteen feet) the enormous Olfd-uhc oe''h
| furnished with sixty teeth-diviDg and swimming
in the water to prey upon the fishes, lying III ,nt
air to seize the birds, creeping upon inc ieuu u
pounce upon the reptiles. still another reIlarha
bic linking-form wss the ieathereu reP.i.e VIZ
| toes armed with sharp claws, and tai OF twenty
| vertebrate each furnished with PAR OF 1eatners
| Marking the transition from fish to terrestrial
animals We find the whale, the porpoise, ahc
| Others which give birth 20 ana nolil5n theli
| Young as do land animals, but having the loiii
| and habits of the fish.
sSlow,y from age to age, ANIMALS appear tt
have modified changing III their structure as the
| conditions of existence changed around lnenl
| The animals with which we are familiar are put q
few OF a host innumerabic, belonging to the grand
! life procession that has marched through tho
ages
Step by .tep, through progressive develop.
nents. we reach the apes and monkeys, between
which and man, according to Darwin; there Il
bnt s. missing link though We might almost
doubt whether any link was missing, or whether
the active, cunning monkey is not even superior
to primitive man, with his long, dangling arms,
dark hairy skin. slopng forehead, and IoI bidding
countenance The Oldest human fossil remains
have but little IN common with the present race
OF men, if we except perhaps the Digger Indian
As development is gradual in the race. so Is 1t
also with individuals As the microscopic germ
in the tnest seed gradually expands INTO the
HlaLuftu DlaDU, SO WIFI ILe ucillS AouA
the almost vegetable growth offtrtallife, through
the helpless animal existence OF childhood, mp to
the expanded intellect OF the full developed
man-nay, through the gates OF death itself into
the more perfect life OF the spheres beyond, de
velopment is slowly and gradually unfOlded. Man
is but an atom. which i'll its progressive develop
ment, having passed through the mlsts OF an I'M
known past. on entering the earth-plane pc
comes conscious Of personal identity, an indlvl-
duality with reasoning faculties which are gradu-
T,,aa< cad mt =
evolved of an immortal spirit, clothed i'll mortal
body: triune existence, combining pure
spirit robed in spiritual body which is clad with
the perishable rainlent OF the mortal frame.
An intinitisimal fraction OF eternity Is consums
ed by the g three-score years and ten OF man.
life then the garb OF mortality is cast aside,
the trinity is dss Owed, land the dual existence
OF pure spirit robed in spiiltua! body begins.
The life led by man upon earth, determines the
plane to which his spirit will srayitate, and the
sciousness in the great hereafter; he it III the
murky darkness Of the lowest sphere, nearest
the earth plane, be it IN the glorious light Of the
highest heaven, attained only by those who per-
fectly obey the law.
The future condition OF the soui depending
thus upon the Use or abuse Of the opportunities
afforded by that brief period OF three-score years
and ten, from the moment that YOU rea!lze that
you are an immortal being, endeavor also to
realize that from that moment you become res
ponsibic to yourself for the happiness or misery
OF an immortal spirit Remember that the
future only is yonrs, time lost can never be re-
gained the past is gone beyond recall, but its
consequences remain forever.
The death Of the mortal body is but new
birth of the spirit, which. leaving the earth
plane, continues its course Of development. The
spirit awases to consciousness III new sphere Oh
existence but it is the same spirit still, passing
onward from here TO sphere, retaining lts midi
vidualty always, and leaving behind only the
painful memories of the past: wading through
rivers OF death, whose purifying waters wash
every stoin away. till finally the spiritual body
itself is ca.t aside, and the pure spirit is freed at
last. and enters the highest heaven, the centre
of divinity.
Thus We have glanced at few of the links Of
the unbrOken chain from sick to seraph know
ing neither the beginning nor the end-if such
there be-examining the intermediate links which
20 me within the sphere Of orr cosnizance
thanks to the revelations Of Geology as to the
mote past, and to the teachings Of the angels as
to the glorious future. INV.