The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-07-10
Mr.. Murray at Turner Hall.

| A large and intelligent audience greeted Mr..
w. II. II. Murray, at Turner Hall on Sun
day night, Notwithstanding the threatening
aspect of the weather. and the numerous other
attractions in churches and gardens. Z. X.
Breneman, Esq, introduced Mr.. Murray,
who proceeded without introductory remarks
to deliver the following address entitled,
MAN, here and hereafter" The audience
was held spell-bound during the hour and
half of the delivery
!. MAN, HERE AND HEREAFTER.
The men and women who were here fifty
wears ago have passed away. The men and
women who are here tonight, will fifty years
hence have passed away. We are all march
ing members of procession composed OF
| fourteen hundred millions OF our kind "a
procession that never halts and never hurries,
and whose line from cradle to grave is contin-
uous and without gap. AT one end are the
Young: at the other the old AT one end We
see human beings coming out of darkness; at
the other we see them going into derkness
The finest article in our faith teaches us that
they come out Of the bosom of God. 1t were
we'll if in our faith was an article which taught
US that they returned to the same benevolent
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be happy. Others believe that few 60 into
Heaven, while the many 60 to hell. Such
should be miserable. Others, yet know not
what to think or decline to think, looking
upon it as mystery, and protecting them
selves from the horror of it behind the shield
of indifferentism. But whatever may be our
views or our feelings the fact remains. That
r in every 90 or 40 years more than thousand
millions of human being are born into this
: world, and more than a thousand millions 60
out Of it. They are here. and they 60 into the
: hereafter. While here they pass through GER
) tain changes. When going into the hereafter,
and while in the hereafter, what changes,
D think you friend comes to them? While here
: they are subject to certain influences and
forces. In the hereafter they are, of course,
f subject to influences and forces, more potent,
n more multiform, than those they felt here
E What effect have these influences and forces
r upon them in all the long ages; in all the
mighty and continuous cycles that we call
n Eternity? We can watch them here as they
y sail down the stream, and see how they fare
{ But how Jared they and what fortunes come to
them, when each in his little boat has been
# hoated by the tide of years, from between the
l. headlands of time beyond our sight out on
d that great level expanse of water. channeleo
!. by currents whose iartherest flowing chafes
n no shore What feelings do they have there
e What life do they live! What fate befall'
them and in what destiny are they fixed
n This is the problem,-a problem not to be
is solved perhaps, and yet which provoKes us &c
v profoundest thought; for what befalls them
!. will befall us, and therefore are we interested
J. in the far reaching processes and the far
= reaching result. | do not, Of course. expec
% to solve III problem: | do not expect to hell
W u solve it. We only learn the Alphabet o
I Life here. The ages will set the letters each
in its proper piece, and construct the sentenc
which shall finally. spell out the glorious den
i milton. But have been accustomed to think
% in the feeble way that mortals must think OF
5 these things. and give my thought, slight as i
r is in vale, to whoever might cometo the audienc
in of its expression: and you who are here to-nlgh
have been accustomed to hear me, and to you
j. have given all my mind on these matters
r. Some claim to have been helped thereby.
Ia trust none have been hndered. For though
Of which quickens thought never hnders. her
N is no wing of all the many that beat the air, i
&. all the world, so tiny that the air is not mad
~ purer by its movement. There is no rlppl
A. however slight on any ocean, that does nc
n make its water clearer. There is no drop ths
or falls from any cloud, that does not stand a
~ father to some growth. And whoever starts
,d thought in any human mind, starts proce:
IL and produces result that benefits the word
he makes it purer, clearer, and gives nutriment
in some root within whose sap flows the Swee
rte ness of uniformed flowers.
10 am here to night to break long silent
and tell you in part what that silence has give
liz to me, and you have come to hear me talk SON
an of my thinking out, 1t may nothelp you muc
Nd Enough for me to know it may help you som
49, and to feel it cannot hurt you at all. Perha]
* he who does no evil does the highest good.
~ My theme, is the old theme Of Man.
Tor mil ht be called the only theme. For in it a
not all themes held, -even as the forces whl'
make the mighty trunk, the monstrous bough
an the countless twigs and the numberless leav
JUS are held within the acorn? The time l ha
IN tonight at my disposal allows me only to CT
!. here and there fragment from my thinking
10 to touch upon few points only of what m
think touching themselves, the changes tn
on on come to and the fortunes that ultimately Def
Dill them. And the points l have selected a
mo those upon which, as it seems to me, the av
OF age man is the most ignorant. the most wav'
ab ing and the least enlightened; seek to corr
nor what seems to me to be false thinking.
ne bring some things forth from the mists viii
mas enfold them, into the broad clear light Il
'ad they may loose their mishapeness and appe
-, as they actually are. If we could only deli'
tne ourselves from old notions-old as Gum
superstition and hoary as human ignorance;
-. we could only clear the field OF the unsigh
ms scarecrows, which the Church has hung up
,nts frighten away danger that does not exist; if
Ire LID on1y em,ncinate our minds from IN
SET bondage to past opinions-opinions of m
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