Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-06
SPECTRA.

SfECIKA.
Ah,when shall men|t take their Immortality
as they breathe the atmosphere and cease
asking whether they breathe or not?
Despair is Natures cripple, and falls up
on its clutches c,nDlainingly. Hope alone
supports and su,tains under all vicisstudes
OF person or estate.
"Of inferior beings, the human MIND,
SELF or person. is the most simple and iudi-
vidual essence. And the Supreme Father
is the most perfect One. Der kelley.
am the resurrection and the life"
sounds strange and false from lips, refer
ring only TO another who once uttered
them. Yes; am the resurrect and alive.
Ii know what these purport; but dead and
despairlng, If do not. Surely the CEN
turtles intervening since these quickening
words were pronounced should bave certi-
fed TO every soul ere this its latent immo--
tality.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my
strength, not my weakness. | can fall
without help fast enough. Can you assist
me to rise? | need all your strength to
call forth my own, and you do not help me,
nn less you luyigorate my faith and hope in
my own powers Donot step between my
strength and my weakness, and parley;
with each in turG.
Our choices are our destiny. Virtue and
vice are alik. volunteers; conducting to,
parodse or the pit, as we predetermne.
fhe sayiours are they who persuade us to-
choose the one and refuse the other; other
being always the adversary of One. There
are Saviours and mediators, but OF oar own
election, and ly- no one being doomed
0 perdition, Or deifed, without his full
consent.
Virtues aud sins have their root and or
igin in one choices, and are original alike.
Tendencies may DC Inherlted; but must be
adopted and followed iato act TO constitute
sinner or saint. Only whatthe will chooses
and loves is its own Errors of the head
are neither SINFUL nor subjective. One may
err without SHINING and mistake ignorant
IL the wrong for the better, the worst tor
the best, the evil for the good .1ut tue
retribution of remorse an oil approval fol-
lows, as the conscience is quick and the
spirit president aud alert.
Mans world is not created for him but
by him; otherwise he was the victim of his
conditions, incapable of freedom aud self
perfectability. He must be not by another's
help, but by his own choice and efforts.
God were not God void power out of itself,
and hence simply the victim of nature aud
of necessity. Freedom is the browning con-
ditlon of the Godhead, and of manhood
ALSO
There is room enough in the minds
depth for superstition to revel unrestraineo
in Is vagaries Ever the instincts may be
misinterpreted when betrayed by the sor-
cerles OF the passions nothing being so
strange to mind as mind itself; and every
where in Nature, vast as it is, the strange
fails to satisfy the mind, which plunges
through, and still beyond, into the I'M
known, seeking thus to exc out of itself in
things, but finds never its rest save in the
unattained, unattainable All.
The FOOLS conceit is, 'sI'here is no Cod;
Thus nullifying himselfdenying, in his
ignorance his own existence. Truth Is
falsehood's measure and is pre-assumed in
order to render it's denial possible. A
simpIeton can deny, but it needs wise
man to affirm, intuitively and absolutely.
For can any folly associate the notion of
God from his thought; in some guise or an
other the notion adheres to his Person, af-
frming and re-af6rming itself in him.
The MUD is theist sound and sober
Who has not named and knelt before one
superior 10 himself holier than any one
whom he has beheld with his eyes, and
pronounced in his heart; it not IN words.
Father in heaven, hallowed be thy Names
If such there be, let him not claim kinship
with mankind, but remain in his den with
his fellows. Without Father, Pers onal,
Spiritual, Humane, souls are ret immured
in the den Of inverted appetites and pas
sions, need to be regenerated and born into
their holler and happier attributes.
The Hindoos define fate ssthe penalty Of
deeds committed in previous state of ex
istence;" the Hebrews, 'sthe sins of the ia
theirs visited upon the children unto the
third ana fourth generations and the
Christians, 'sthe penalty of Adams sin or
iginal.' All the same-iafelicity in our
genesis and the consequent lapse of inseg-
rity, whether from hereditary tendencies OF
voluntary. Our choices determine our des-
tiny, and deliver or draw us to present or
future veal or woe by their consequences.
alone am responsible for M! deeds, or for
for the dispositions which cherish; and
though may ind myself better born or
worse, my duty consists IL checking and
overcoming as far as I may, any propen-
sites that tempt me TO transgress the voice
OF the spirit in my breast, or to cherish and
fortify all that prompts to It's faithful obe-
dience. Gould ignore or &brogate mY
conscience, might doom myseH to perpel-
nal suffering, and at last annihilate my per-
sonality, lapsing out OF my humanity into
the pit OF mere animal or brute existence.