Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-03-18


through the natural senses, in whic
there is nothing inconsistent wit
science, reason, revelation or expe
rience.
1t IS very common for miners to sa,
such and such man has been remark
ably lucky; he has struck and work et
out and drank up a dozen lodes. w
deny the affirmation as to his luck, ant
affirm that his mind was often perhap
controlled by his soul; and that durins
his perfect sleep and passiveness th,
soul was free to perceive and impress
objects upon the mind in a dream
perhaps the like even during wakefu
moments when the mind was passive
and the spirit free. The sense tina
pereeives without natural organs may
even be awake and free during /;
drunken torpor, and in full connection
with the source Of all knowledge, The
mind in such case sufficiently capabl,
OF being impressed.
The case of we'll known fact il
which a man was drowning and hi,
mind 80 far suppressed as to be pas
sive, vet the flame not extinct, and biz
soul quite free, upon being resusctat
ell was found to have recovered thu
knowledge where a particular paper
of great value had been concealed
twenty years before, is in exact point
with hundreds of similar revelations
under passive mental condition; and
none are less deserving of superstitious
allegation than the requirement
of fortune by means of dream revela'
ton or the recovery of misllld val
aables, by means of a drown or a
dream, or even drunk.
The writer hereof has not trimmed
his opinions in view of his own or any
public sentiment, nor discussed the re
liglous topics variously suggested III
ehis ~saoay H. ao..tiu.o..to a'ss'~
pendent orthodox 1.-THE qualifying word
that he submits to reason
and science, with experience and Oh
in arriving at his religious
faith.
lie believes ia the first Adam or
man at the period of creation, the i'm
mortal spirit was free and that it
crowned the mind with almost supreme
wisdom, and with purity; that man
was, perhaps, physically immortal;
that by act of disobedience, or sinful
transgressions, the soul was degraded
and put in bondage, the mind thus
left to sinful inclination; and the body,
d priofl, became mortal.
That in Christ the second Adam or
man under the provisional or temper
ary government, was furnished with a
means OF redemption, from the curse
for dsobedience, but with Ger
tain conditions Of faith and obedience
on his part-that is, the possibility of
Ewing 50 lar under the control of the
soul, and the soul 50 completely in
or other connection with d.
vinity, that it may govern in willing
obedience the mind and man, subject
only to painful exceptions as when the
are overstrung.
And finally, that either through the
means of science or discovery, or
through special edict from God as q
positive favor, the soul is to recover in
large part or wholly, its long lost SUI
premacy over the mind and body, and
man return to his first obedience
God welcoming the prodigai, and no
longer repenting the creation.
As in Adam all died, so in Christ
shall all be made alive. Science, rea-
son and observation, when applied to
either essence or matter, or to con-
duct, personal, national or universal,
appear to perfectly harmonic with
such views, offered merely as propo-
sitions without argument The whole
Is oa,.-..;f,,lIi anu WOuuUI Iuuy oAeni-
pifud by the sciences of geology,
botany and astronomy; and the sea-
sons, seed time and harvest, life, de-
cay and successive reorganization in
the vegetable kingdom, and formation,
and decay and reor9ani.
cation in the mineral kingdom, all
teach that perfection, decentralization,
reconstruction and perfect restoration
the routine in all Nature.
We believe that, by special edict
God will work the final restoration,
but it would not be unreasonable were
man by his knowledge and discovery
TO seem to cooperate with divinity,
or even to appear as at the lead in
restoring man to full connection
with the fountain of knowledge, holi
ness, perfection. A thirst for knowl
edge led man to fall; such thirst may
restore his estate.
Man has passed through nearly all
the -eigus Of the passions-idolatry, lus
and brutality, war and hatred, civil
zation aud glory, sel6shness and pride
cold and commerce, and we are next tc
inagurAte the reign of art and science
with Republican government tor al
the nations, based upon intelligent
popular suffrage, the best and creates
men, perhaps ladies, to preside over th'
worlds destiny The only possibly
higher order OF reign that can follow
will be that of universal benevolenc'
and love to God, and man fraternit,
instead of each being an individual
self.
The engine Of progress cannot re
verse its action at any future stage t
be conceived Of; already we are I'M
der partial lead and sway of tn
arts and sciences, and intelligent rev
olutions never go backwards. An
it is impossible to conceive that tn
more spiritual essentials Of the neH
reign shall fail to lead the physical
or that even conscience shall be sui
ordinated and the soul made to d
homage to the intellectual sovereign.
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