The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-09-26
The Life Beyond the Grave.

Bishop Il, 5, Foster, of Boston, de.
liyered lecture not long ago before the
Chautauqua Assembly on the topic " Be-
yond the Grave" He said the subject
was one of great importance, but one of
great intrinsic Obscurity II will not do
either TO assume everything and 10 dis
cllss the theme from personal beliefs. It
must be discussed from the standpOints
Of the Bible, truth, and human reason.
The first question OF two 10 be con.
sidercd, " Is there Il life beyond the
gravcY' was taken up. The Bishop
said do not know whether there Is
or not There are grounds for belief
that there is II is matter of natural
belief supported by evidence, because
there is no absolute knowledge of life
beyond the grave, The question has
become one for disputation, and there
are Il great many honest dOubtcrs many
of whom do not declare their doubts
With David the Bishop clasacd pure
matcrlalistS rs fools. For them there is
no God and no life beyond Others be-
lieyc that man has 4 spirit within his
human organization, but that at death
the spirit sleeps until the resurrection.
Others believe the souls of the wicked
are annlhilated at death Then there is
the weIl-knOwn belief of the Christian
world The belief Of the speaker was
that man was spirit and survived after
death, yet the matter was involved in
great difficulties so far as we can see
the man dies and pcri-hes. We cannot
| pursue personal investigation beyond
the grave. Why do we believe that man
survives death? We are bound to an
swcr this question. First was given the
evidence which is found outside of the
Bible This is first in the nature of
man. What we see is not the man.
The essential man is invisible, The
material man is only an organism for
the use of the real man. In proof of
this it was said that there we're two
kinds OF existence, one of spirit and
one Of matter, factor OF thought
which thinks and expresses thought
The mere matter of living or unliying
is not thought factor and cannot be-
come So Behind every organism, and
necessary to it, is the thought factor
which is antCCcdcnt to organism, and
without it the organise could never cX-
list. A watch is an organized machine.
Reason asks, whence came it? and it
finds that at one time it existed in UNI
organized material; that thinker cX-
listed who organized the ideao the watch
and gave il q material form. This was
a certainty. II is said the brain is the
organizer, but what organizes the brain
in the realm of nature? However, we
have a variety of organisms superior to
material structures, chief of which is
that Of man himself. Then the universe
itself is an organized whole, 4 grain OF
sand or drop Of water is an organism
as result Of natural law. Vegetable !
organisms were also alluded to. Behind |
all these the Bishop placed thinker,
No order or succession could be eternal. !
The essence Of numbers is a unit. The |
idea il finite. The order of the globe |
cannot be eternal. The system of day !
and night cannot be eternal One is |
before the other, and u thing that is
after any other thing cannot be eternal. |
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