Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-02
IMMORTAL LIFE.
MrS, Mary y. Livermore at Unity Church
Yesterday.

Mrs, Mary y. Eivermore at Unity Churth
Yesterday.
The morning service at Unity church yes
terday was we'll attended, the announce
ment that Mrs. Mary A. Livermore would
preach drawing a largo number of persons
in addition to the regular attendants of the
church. After tho usual devotional exer-
G,nnett, during which passages from the
scriptures and selections from Socrates, Gil
cerc, Emerson and Carlyle were read re-
latipg to the subject the speaker had chosen
for her discourse. Mrs, Livermore was in
troduced and interested her hearers for an
hour on the subject of Immortal life
Life to people is seen in different lights.
To some who bear their own AMI become
saturated with others grief it is vale of
tears. TO those WHO say whittier are We
going it is a mystery. To others it is a
game where all IS staked to gain their
highest hopes and interests. AS soon as
we can realize what life is, all feel certain
dread.
The weavers in India who work the beau
tiful designs in carpets aud shawls stand
unuerUSdlu lue ClOtl tucti ohueeAC,
and from their stand they see nothing but
knots and caricatures of the design,
but the head workman is overhead aud di-
reo.s which way the shuttle should be piled.
So With US life seems q mass of blunders and
mistakes, but above is one who directs all
movements with master hand. The fact is
We dwell too much in the basement of our
natures, and do not leave until God comes
1 NOT n
to prove thu Immortality of life
as wo can problem by mathe-
MATES or in the laboratory, but
when we rise from communion we feel
sure that there IS something of the kind, but
We are not able to talk the feelings as to
make any one understand it. If lire was
only the brief chasm from the cradle TO the
grave it wuald not be worth the living.
Do uot suppose that | am SO audaciouS as
t. Try 20 clear up the matter of immortal
life. or solve the problem. but TO say 20 you
the thoughts say to myself. The desire
for immortal life is a strong and active feel
ing THE TACT that we have
this feeling leads IA to know
that there is future life. Then another
thought: None of us are fully developed in
this life. All are trife one-sided, for an ex-
music he knew comparatively nothing. The
celebrated mathamaticians know nothing but
figures, and the business men know nothing
but business. Ii there is no future life what
will become of our undeveloped powers.
Most of US have been in the chamber of
death. Does not the action of those who go
out of this life carry out the thought that
there is az immortal life? | WIS IN posi-
ton during the late war where saw large
number of deaths, probably over one thou
sand, and never but once do l remember of
one who went out on the drifting tide with
any fear. | have heard chaplains tell and
read descriptions of terrible death bed scenes,
but they are not real.
remember very distinctly the death bed
of Rev. o. A. Skinner, noted and proml-
Gent Universalist divine. His last words
were, Il know that you are all about me but
l can hardly see or hear you. l seem to be
alone, and around me are beautiful forms
and faces. Believe me, friends, there is no
DEATH
Starr King, enc of the leading divines of
California, when told he had but fifteen min
utes to live, replied, "All the possibilities of
my Immortality come over me-"
But some say it was the trade of these
men to teach this and they became fixed
with the thought. How then do they &C
count for the same feelings displayed at the
death bed of children of young and tender
years?
The speaker closed by saying that it was
q grand thought TO believe that this life was
connected with the great life which we
would live az long as God lived.