Smyrna times., 1882-04-05
If a Man Dies Shall He Live Aagin
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Intelligence reveals itself as the product
of brain organism, and thS ultimate of
brain development. In man this ulti-
mate is attained, and i'll no other creature.
This is the climax of development. Intel
ligence imagining the Deity, as sparkling
drop from the fountain of Deifc Force,
embodied in the human brain, speaks that
brains Immortality. The intelligence
which is mans spirit, which is itself organ
lied brain from Deity, prOpagates itself
Outwardly, fashiOning a soul brain, and
though this physical brain, the former
serving as a body, an outer brain to it
when the physical decays and is cast Off
This is according to the analogies of nature
and is confirmed by revelation, being the
science of life as it reveals itself from the
interior life. A future concious life seems
probable for man in the manifest design
of his existence. No matter from what
point of observation we look. man is the
central figure of all life. There is no fact
more thoroughly established than that
existance is the completion Of design
made manifest in the struggling forces OF
universal nature. When the young world
leaped from the sun it started on the road
to manhood and womanhOOd. Its song as
it floated on the blue breast of space was
prelude to the coming king of the world
Every phase of life which appeared was a
prophecy of life still higher, and each
paved the way and smoothed the path
for man. Man is the fruit of the tree Of
life. Shall he live only to draw a sigh and
pass through life's open gate and then GO
out into darkness? Wherever we may go
or look we behold nature in her progress.
i've unfOldment, forever individualizing
her creations
In man we find no exception to this
universal law; here we find nature has
combined physical and spiritual and given
man an NATURALIZATION. Shall we say
nature has labored il vain9 and at the
transformation called death this created,
individualized creation becomes noneni.
ty? What infinite folly for a law OF
progress to toll through ages TO produce
thinking man, and then end his life with
this brief earthly experience. 1t seems to
me the design in nature is abruptly ter
minated if we concede to man no future
existence. The patient investigators OF
the universe have not hesitated to affirm
eternal substance and eternal power
Every fact in nature tends to prove matter
and force eternal. Shall matter and force
be eternal, and the spirit of man who
alone has discovered this deathless sub
stance and power, go down, as Mr.. Inger
sol would say " into the tOngueless silence
of the dreamless dust ?" Shall substance
of the stars abide forever, and mind thai
can study the cycles of its flight, be lost g
day? Must worlds be eternal in substance
and power, and the mind which can meas
ure and analyze them 60 out in darkness
Man is greater than the world, for he car
comprehend and survey it. How many
the voices proclaiming the souls great
future? In earth, in air, and in sky, W.
read a glorious destiny. Let the wheel o
time crush the monuments we build, anC
the temples we rear; let the roses go from
our cheeks; let nimble limbs grow stiff
and raven locks become whitened by thu
winter of age, still we shall live ON eve
learning new lesson as the eternal years
roll on. INVESTIGATOR.
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