Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-05-08

wife; as king or warrior, or statesman, or
trusted friend or beloved pastor. The
spiritual individual is everything. The
destructions0f any seul would be an ire
parable loss, nothing can be conceived
more utterly at variance with the harmo-
ny of creation; it is an absolute impossi-
bility and anot irreverent limitation even
of, Almighty will. A man can tell a
sfalsehood and thereby: demonstrate his
falseness; the pagan god can deceive, be-
cause he is weak and limited. But our
God, because of His own infinite strength
and Of His eternal omnipotence, must
forever coincide with Himself. Other
wise instead of being an infinite possibil-
ity, He would be an infinite impossible
ty. At one and the same instant He
would be and not be God. If this be 80,
we must dismiss the argument, for the
ideality Of physical science is an unreal
fable and tho immortality of the spirit is
q delusive promise.
But tine multitude of immature chill
dren which die, what of them? Are
their souls lost2 Why, if they continue
to live have they been deprived of the
benefit of this worlds education2 What
shall we say concerning the suffering
with which this world IS afflicted What
of sin2 The body is the vocal instrument
through which the soul communicates
with other souls, with his past self, and
even, perhaps, with his God. Were the
communication between soul and soul
direct and immediate, there would be
no protection for thought; each man
could take possession of the thoughts of
every other man, and there would be no
personality and individuality. The body
is needed to hold the souls apart and
preserve their independence, as well as
for conversation and mutual sympathy.
Hence body and matter are essential to
mans true existance. Without them he
must, in accordance. with the Chinese
theology, be instantly absorbed into the
Infinite Spirit. In this case creation
would he false and unmeaning tragedy,
The soul which leaves this earthly body
still requires incorporation. The grand
est philosopher who has ever speculated
upon the theme has told us in his sub
lime epistle that there are celestial bodies
az we'll as bodies terrestrial. It may not
be in vain to strive to attain some in
sight into the possible nature of the celes-
tial bodies, and It may, perchance, assist
as reconciliation for sorrow and sin.
Gan we fear lest the substances of the
celestial bodies will be less adapted to
the souls which they are to clothe9 Is it
not a fair and just influence that each
body will be nicely fitted to its soul, as il
organized and crystallized under the
controlling influence from within2 What
better suggestion can be made which
shall give us the full benefit of the disci-
pline, education ties and symrathies of
this lifea We shall be known as We are.
Soul will recognize soul through its ex-
ternal covering with unerring certainty.
The stature of each body will correspond
to the magnitude of the soul. The iD-
tellectual supremacy and consumate
beauty of Shakespeare will be more ap-
parent IN his celestial body than is his
ideal stature. The countenance of the
great lawgiver of Judea will shine as
when he descended from Mount Sinai.
No crown will be needed to designate
legitimate royalty, nor any celestial
aureole encirl1ng their heads to mark the
loving and majestic presence of the
apostles and true saints. We may justly
apprehend that the deformity of our
future body will conform to our spiritual
errors in the present life. Would not
such be the natural and legitimate pun
ishment of sin? But, surrounded by
love and sympathy, who would not
speedily repent and hasten to be re-
stored to his intended excellence, and fill
heaven with Joy at his recovery? We
then might recognize how suffering and
sin were short lived violations of material
and spiritual law, essential to free agency
how they were the evidence of unlimited
potentially, and how they were amply
compensated by the freedom and pardon
with which they were associated.
Concerning those who have died young,
the argument is subtler and more uncer-
tain. 1t is a proverb that all sorts of
people are required to make u world.
1t would be detraction from creative
fertility to conceive possible character
that did not exist. Nevertheless, we
must admit that there are limits of spir-
itual possibility. Certain general prin-
ciples of human nature must be difused
through all souls which are intended for
mutual intercourse. Such is mathemati-
cal truth, which wise men accept as
absolute. have heard it suggested that
possibly the Creator might reverse this
truth and make two and two five, or the
Jun of the angles of rectiGnear triangle
differ from two right angles. Such a
power might be attributed to species
Of pantheistic god, some unconscious, un-
developed, idiotic and chaotic divinity,
but not to the one perfect God, of an in
finite harmony of imagination
Experience justifes the assertion that all
forms of mind required in this world are
here to be found. How will it be with
the greater demands of the future world
Where is the supply to come from? Why
not from the immature spirits which be-
gan their existence here, where there is
marriage and offspring, and are ready fo1
different training, partly, perhaps, un-
der our own guidance in the different
circumstances of the celestial world?
WONDERFUL ORGANS OF SENSE POSSIBLE
We have here five imperfect senses and
they are as much as we can man.
| age III CulS leIIeStTl6J WOT1u. IA IlIcl1Me
is required for the most of us to become
iourneymen in the use of either of them,
and no man has yet been known who
was the master of them all. Touch, taste
and smell arse from objects in 1mmed
ate contact with the nerves. Their wide
range of perception in different persons
and their capacity for education give vi
uudoubted intimation of how much they
may be extended in a more delicate an6
sensitive organization. Their variety o.
character dependent upon their location
in the nervous system, and their apparen
difference in the inferior animals, sugges
the possibility and probability of in
crease of var iety in the future, whe1
they may be usefully employed
Hearing and sight, by which We com
,municate with our fellows and perceive
distinct objects, are conveyed by mean'
of vibrations. Auditory vibrations may
not be oftner than ten in . second, o.
they may be as many as 10000. Visua
vibrations, on the contrary, are MOI less
than four hundred millions ofmillions ir