Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-04-24
AT THE CHURCHES.

! N-NS
Westminster Presbyterian Church. In the
evening his subjecs was: :" Man is response
bic for bis belief" The ordinance of baptism
was administered at the evening service at
the church of the United Brethren in Christ.
At the Congregational Church. in the ever
ing, Rev. L E. Dwinel, D. D., repeated his
lecture on "The intirati)Hs of Immortality
in man and life." The lecture was first de-
livered before the University OF California,
on the 10Th inst. The following is synop-
sis: There are CLEANS of the diamond which,
to the experienced eye, reveal its genuiueness
before testing its hardness and composition.
So there are symptoms OF immortality which
betray the fact without waiting for the
demonstration hereafter; and the eye,
guided by the insight OF an aroused
Immortality, sees in the soul here
in the CLEANS that pass from it. its
experiences and outreactings-the signs
of its enduring existence. The following are
some of these signs: 1. TIE incompleteness
all souls wealth of possibility for the un-
folding Of which no provision is made in this
world. When you look along the line of
these undeveloped powers, the slumbering
possibilities packed away, and consider that
this repression cannot possibly be reversion
from higher state nor the result OF accident
or miscarriage in particular individuals, but
is the fact with all, do you not find yourself
looking in the direction of future life, an op-
portunity for developing the unused faculties? !?
2. Mans dissatisfaction with life. Looking
across the universal unrest On earth, the emp
tiness, the disappointment and misery, this
world does not seem worth living for. if this
is all !; and it is only as future world is seen
in the background, and this is regarded as a
preparatory world, that it has significance
and value. 8. The institutions devoted to
ideas. principles, truth. These ara spiritual
and eternal realities. and when man builds
these structures his faith In immortal things
and betrays his own Immortality. Such
structures are as truly built down from the
world above as built up from the earth.
Unsatis6ed retribative IDEAS The re-
tributive ideas are among the most
inexorabie demands of the soul. But
in this life justice is only partially
ably to a reckoning beyond. 5. STRINGS
within caused by overpowering surprises.
There are times when our nature is over.
whelmed, and suddenly cries out, betraying
the slum bering sense of its Immortality and
of the world and powers above. At such
times men who had spurned such things be.
fore find themselves looking over into the
realities of the world of spirits, and breath
ing the air of the outer courts of eternity. 6.
Aspirations. These, when reaching out far
beyond any realities of earth, are forecast
shadows OF immortelity and aspirations
cherished and followed, resulting in spirit
ual dawn IN the character, are prophesies of
the souls endless day. z. The social impulse
and desire. No organizations or fellow
ships of earth meet the souls longings. This
fact points to a world of higher and
purer society, where those who are not dis.
qualified for them will overtake the social
blessings they here grope fer in vain. s. The
| feeling of youth in the soul down to old age.
The soul never feels old, but always young as
if pluming itself for an indefinite flight. It
| feels at three score and ten as if it had lust
opened its eyes in its Fathers house, visited
q few of Its wondrous chambers, and seen
some Of their sumptuous furnishings but
that the grand objscts of its existence were
fresh upon it, and that the morning dew was
still lying upon life. Now. when you see the
soul thus oblivious of its years, not knowing
that it has any, do you not see that you are
sighting an energy with the Instincts of i'm
mortality? 8. The abiding sense of person
ality. 1t is a remarkable fact that
amid all the changes that come over
us and go through us, there is
! persistent consciousness of the same self
hood. There is O central fixed about which
the outer sells come and go. The body
changes. the thought world, the feelings. the
purposes. We go off in dreams, in visions,
in insanity but returning reason gives US
back the same conscious self. Does not this
persistent personality point to a selfhood tn at
will survive all changes and catastrophes
/ 10. Again, the soul has telltale thoughts. It
| thinks God, Truth, Goodness, 1niizity, Eter.
nifty. From within itself it sends out thoughts
like the feelers of insects, which reach over
into the eternal world, feel the realities there,
! take their form and proportion, and assure it
of their certainty and quality. And when
| you see this do you not sea the very
energy of immortality itself in its
forecast outreacbings and workings
| Now these signs and tell. tale revelations do
not merely suggest future existence without
assuring us of its permenancy, but they carry
US grandly and triumphantly over into the
conviction of Immortality itself. The soul is
so constituted that if it catches sight of a
future existence at all, as awaiting it, it stops
not at any halfway point, but speaks at once
to the belief of its endless existence If man
is 50 great, what shall we do for him: Help
him up to God, to truth to goodness, to
duty. and so fit him for his true home. If
man is so great, what shall we do for our
selves? Live for Immortality, our own and
that of others, and 80 secure the highest end
of existence.
MERCHANDISE REPORT. - The following
freight passed Ogden for Sacramento on
the 10Th For n. s. Arnold & Co., 40
bundles iron, bundles rims, bundle hubs,
l box spokes; Huntington, Hopkins & Co.,
70 boxes horse nails, 8 boxes saws, box ma
chinery oilers, 10 drums iron pipe fittings;
Capital Furniture Company, l case furniture
springs; Billingsley & Co., 10 packages
bowls; John Breuner, 4 boxes marble, 2
boxes furniture; Hale Bros. & Co, l bale
cotton goods, boxes hosiery; Booth Il Co.,
box wire cloth. 10 pals tobacco; George o.
Bates, l box sugar, boxes axles; L. Lyon &
Co, 2 boxes dry goods, l box cotton goods, /
box worsted goods, box hosiery; Lindlsy &
Co, "a boxes sugar, Sc crates and cases ex-
tracts. 325 cases oysters A. A. Van Voor.
hies & Co., l case whips; Weinstock & Lubin.
2 boxes shoes, 2 barrels and boxes lamps, l
box quilts, box dry goods; w. A & c. S.
Houghton, 1 box syrup, . boxes books !;
Evert Capwell, l box sugar; a. Dennery &
Co., 6 barrels glass tumOlers; A. Meister, 1
box carriage axles and springs; Hall, Luhrs