Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-03

LAST Sabbath morning Rev. 7. Sher-
lock, of the Methodist church, preach
ed sermon founded on the text:
If a man die, shall he live again 20 Job
IA: IA.
The THEME deduced tberefrom, is,
or as preached, was, the immortality Of
the soul
The introductory comprehended re
view of the doubts aud uncertainty that
have existed in the minds of men in
every age from the tine that Job ut
tered the tex. of the sermon, to this
day and generation Tc dag men ask
the same question, and to-day, as in the
past, there is no certain answer, through
the researches of science, through the
phllosop:ca! Investigations of philoso-
piers, or through the works of students.
All these have failed 10 establish to a
certainty the Immortality Of the soul.
They have, however, done much to
strengthen the doctrine of the future
life OF the soul. From all the researches
of reason strong evidence of such ex-
istenee is drawn. Man declares that
there is an Immortality of soul.
lst. From Human Reason. Human
reason itself goes long distance to-
ward establishing the immortality of
the soul. Nothing on earth is endowed
with such reason as man. Animals
aud fowls have instinct, but at birth it
is as penetrating as at the age of ma
tur,ty. Such is not the case with hu
man reason. Human reason has no
limi. scarcely to its power The hea-
vens above and the earth below may
be inteIligently mapped out. The
power of human reason could not have
been bestowed if its existence were ia
tended only for use on this EARTH
2nd. From the Human Heart man
declares the existence of soul The
grief, the sorrow, the longings, the as
pira.ions of human heart, who can
measure them There is nothing
within the field of the knowledge of
human kind that manifests such long
ings, such aspirations. All these mani
festations, that are found in nothing
else of animated nature, excepting maH,
causes him to declare it as an evidence
of the Immortality of the soul.
3rd. From Human Conscience, man
declares the Immortality of the soul.
The human conscience, what wonder
ful quality 1t is. How every man and
woman has felt its approving or disap-
proving power, and how through Its
workings the mind uncousciously comes
to believe in the moral government of
God, or some unseen, all powerful
power. The human conscience in its
workings causes men to declare that
the soul of man is immortal
4th. The Dignity Of Nan, or human
nature, declares the Immortality of the
soul. Among all the astounding mani
festations of the mind of mau, none Is
so overshadowiug as the unseen but
positive sense or feeling that sometimes
declares to people that some great cal
anity or some great good has befallen
members of family, or dear friends,
who are away from home. There are
hundreds, yea thousands, of we'll au-
tbenicated cases on record, when cal
amity TO relatives and friends has been
made manifest through unseen spirit
ual power. At this juncture of the
sermon the Reverend gentleman related
a couple of well authenticated cases of
misfortune that befell members of fam
lilies away from home, and how certain
members of the family at home had re-
ceived tokens through an unseen spirit
ual feeling that danger threatened the
absent one. That was soul power.
Who knows that the soul does not
sometimes really leave the body TO COM
muDicate its danger, and lis love to
loved ones How many millions of un-
authenticated cases of soul power are
felt but never mentioned. How tar do
they enter into the workings of every
day life These unseen powers dignity
man or human nature, and cause men
to declare that the soul of man is i'm
mortal
But still, with all this powerful evil
dence formulated, doubt may spring
up in the mind. Indeed such doubt
does find life in the minds of some men,
and they are doubters still. These
points are all-poverful supporting be-
lie.s to the christian man and woman /;
but still without them the immortality
o. the soul is made clear
BY THE REVELATION OF THE BIBLE,
and they who believe in the Bible are
soundly grounded in the belief of the
immortality of the soul. 1t teaches
CHRIST AND THE RESURRECTION,
and from that teaching Genes a belief
in Immortality. There is a soul power
in the belief, that is impaired by Deity
himself through Jesus Christ. The
sojourn, of forty days, of Christ on the
earth, after his resurrection is revela-
tion that cannot be doubted; there is
no uncertainty about it. 1t is belief
on the best of human testimony as to
Christ's resurrection, and the honest
believer in that resurrection receives a
response of soul-feeling and satisfac-
tion that cannot be drawn from any
other source. He, the speaker, had
personally experienced the sOul-power
of the belief in Revelation and Christ
In the
PERORATION
The Reverend gentleman again referred
to the want of belief in the resurrec-
tioh, and the want of belief in repeid-
fiOn making Christ the mediator. by
which the soul is purged, cleaised, and
fitted for the home of the blessed. He
took paper for an illustration. What
is paper We ali know. We all know
and see how useful it is. The State
uses it; the Church uses it; COM