Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1878-03-22

Tree and liberal thinkers. We are fall.
ing into bOndage.
N0w lee Ms 20 back 10 the frogs and
the fish. Let us divide the BRAN into
| fw0 krybuards. The lover key ybuard Is
matter: the upper Keyboard + matter
too Mal1eF 10 inert, and cannct orgi-
nate force OF motion. Now, khen. We
| find by experiment that we can play The
lower keyboard. The upper keyboard
| plays without our 6ngeFs touching it,
There is some power there. Il cannot
be matter; that Il inert. Possibly,
may destroy the instrument, but not the
musician. Perhaps Socrates was right
when he said that his body was only TO
Be buried. 1 q
Here IN the brain. A nerve runs
! from the eye 70 The brain, anetheF from
ihe ear. Che nostrils. and the mouth
Draper says The resi- Of the brain is thus
kHe Sializsd bY aHrxas running 10 it.--
I. B ii. lie a4Ss. lza deA lsa 1iioa &c lIle go
does not destroy the thing that acts upon
the eye. So the destruction ofthe brain
does not destroy the soul, the exterior
thing that sets the brain in motion.
The microscope finds in the body GER
tain minute points called germinal points
or bioplasts. Some ofthese spin nerves,
others muscles, tendons or bones. The
microscope cannot find any difference
between those points, and yet some
weave one thing and some another. Is
this matter? Is there not some power
behind il all. IN the center of the acorn
and in the egg there exists one Of these
bioplasts. To the highest power Of the
microscope both are the same. Yet one
makes an oak, the other bird. Does
matter do this: Life is the cause Of or
ganization, and not organization the
cause ofIife. The scalpel or the micro
scope do not show the deep things oI
God, but IL they show you that oIganiza-
ton does not begin life, can you not be-
lIeve that disorganization does not end
life. And If death does not end all,
what does or cans That organization
does not begin life is admitted by Tyn.
dali, Huxley and other materialIsts. II
they prove this their theme Of evolution
would be established. Nature has made
no halt points. God has made no half
hinges. There is planted within rs
o something that as surely tells Us thai
there is an Immortality before Us as the
instinct in the blrd guides it 10 the South
when the migrating season comes.
Ihave shown you the stars and the
moon. Here is the sun (here the lec-
turer held up Bible amidst great aP-
plause). The fact Of mans resurrec-
ton is attested in this book. Not only
may we know of the resurrection fthe
body, but we may give one way in which
il could be resurrected. The bones oi
a man form his skeleton; the muscles,
if kept in their proper places, would do
the same; even the bioplasts would do
the same thing. But behind these there
is the principle that controls them. Call
it nervous force, life, or give what name
you will. 1t is even more than the
nerves. Make skeleton ofthis. Itis
invisible; you may pass your hand
through it; but you know il is there.
Now, then, can this life be formed int,
bodys We have an illustration in
the Bible, when Christ appeared sud-
denly in the body to group Of disci-
pies, Il was the same body with which
be appeared upon earth. So we viii moi
lose our individuality when we are res
directed. .