The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-08-14
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Rlshop Foster Says He Don't
Know, Bat Believes That There

Know, Bat Believes That There
Is. -rs
Az the chautauqus Assembly on We'd
nssday, Bishop R. s. Foster, Of the NJ. E.
Church, delivered lecture on the topic,
Beyond the Grave" he said the subject
was one Of great importance, but one Of
great intrinsic obseurity. 1t will not do
either to assume everything and to discuss
the theme from personal beliefs. II
must be discussed from the slandpoinb Of
Bible truth and human reason. The first
question Of two TO be considered, as there
life beyond the gravel" was tax en- up.
Said the Bishop. Al do not know whether
there il or not. [sensation.l There
are grounds for :, belief shat there
is. Il is q mattsr Of natural boz
lief supported by evidence, because
there is no absolute knowledge Of life
beyond the grave. The question has
become oue Tor disputation, and there
are great many honest doubters, many
OF whom do not declare their doubb.'
With David, the Bishop chased pure
materiAlists a. fools. For them there Is
no God aud no life beyond. Others be-
lieye that man has spirit within his
human organization, but 1t death the
spiri: sleeps until the resurrection. OH.
ers believe that the souh Of the wicked
are annihilated 1t death. Then there is
the we'll known belief OF the Christian |
world. The belief OF the speaker was |
that man was spirit and survived alter
death, yet the matter was involved 10
great difficulties. So far "a We can see
the man dies and perishes. We cannot
pursue personal investigation beyond
the grave. d...L - 5i-r.aL
WHY do We believe that man survives
death? We, are bound to answer this
question. First was given the evidence
which Is found outside OF the Bible.
This IL frat in the nature OF man. The
essential man Is invisible. The material
man Ia only an organism for the pse Of
the real man, In proof OF this 1t was
said that there were two kinds Of exist
enee, one Of spirit aud one OF matter, q
factor ofthousht which thinks and sx,
presses thought. The, mere matter OF
living or unliying is not thought factor,
and cannot become 50. Behind every
organism, and necessary, to it, Is the
thought factor, which, ia antecedent TO
organism, aud without 1t the organiAm
could never exist. A watch is an organ.
lied machine. Reason asks, Whence
came it?' and It finds that at one time II
existed in unorganized material; that
thinker existed who organized the idea
Of, the watch and gave il q material form.
This was certainty Il Is said the brain
ia the organizer, but what organizes
the brain In the realm Of nay
ture? However, we have yariet-
Of organism superior to material
s,ructnre, chief Of which Is that Of man
himself. Then the universe itself is an
organized whole. A grain Of sand or a
drop Of water is an organism as result
Of natural law. Vegetable organisms
we're also alluded to. Behind all these
the Bishop placed thinker. No order
or succession could be eternal. The es-
senee Of numbers il unit. The idea Ia
Unite. The order Of the globe cannot be
eternsl. The system Of dsy cannot be
eternal. One IL before the other, and q
Thing that IL after any other thing cannot
be eternal, Take the order OF corn; every
grain grows on q stalk and every stalk
grows from grain. You can't get one
except as the result Of another. Ap.
plause The heavenly system was re.
lerred 70 by way Of illustration. Beyond
It there must be thought. Wees granite
and the mountains are solid. They are
not. They must pass away. There is
only one thing that Is solid aud eternal
that is the spirit. Applause.
The question now was as Man Spir-
Il ?" The speaker thought be was, yet, "a
be was invisible, he Of course could not
be seen. We can look in through the
window Of the sparkling eye and know
that there Is q man in there. The spirit
Of man has mlchine-ihe human frame
Ito get about with. When he wants 10
20 to Europe he tells his body to get up
and go. Laughter. Is not the spirit
different from the flesh and blood? We
know it. Applause Every seven years
there's an entire change in the body, but
the man stays. Laughter and applause.
The picture gallery Of the soul Ia larger
tnhu Az buo piSAuiV bAShtS' " 'HS
world, and it is not material constitute
ton. We may know this spirit Is older
than matter. The soul Ia distinct from the
body. Man belongs to the spiritual realm.
All this We find as the result Of pure rea.
soniug. When the body perishes, what
aiter7 Does II have any effect on the
soul2 When the musical instrument Is
destroyed, does It follow that the player
is Destroyed Destroy the body Of the
lover who whispers sweet words to his
mistress, and you do not destroy him.
There are things man can do without
eyes, or ears or hands. he can live 10
two worlds. He cannot eat corn, bat he
must raise It TO feed to his machine.
Laughter.l The Bishop said: ii under
lake TO say that can live without the
body after death, and expect to-" Zap.
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