Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-09-22
RELIGION NEVER vANQUIsHED.


life to the sense of beauty in the uni
verse. Forgetting no detail In the end
less variety of things, it places duty
where human necessity places. it. This
task is in transforming our surroundings
to meet and satisfy our best wishes.
Duty first; no harshness excuses its non-
performance. 1t takes man as he is,
with the sum of all his ailments and
weakness, and draws him to the spirit
of things. Are you harshly dealt with,
or is the world laying a heavy burden
upon your shoulders, patience to endure,
and courage to brave it through, bring
you at once in communion with this
Divine force. Everything is for the
best, and everything is in its place, is
the keynote of this system. The misery
complained of is the want Of harmony
between man and the inevitable. The
agony of death, wretchedness,--wO
than death, result from this cause. TO
all ills of the flesh the idealistic panacea
is acting in conformity with the laws of
your being. if you have an ache in your
head it is question Of more palatable
diet. IL you suffer mental dread, it is
want OF proper knowledge, but patti ence
is the missing link easily discovered, to
unite man to The sense of beauty in the
universe. 1t does not overlook pain
consequent on aflliction, it simply sup
plies a remedy in self denial, running
up to the sublimest courage as a com
pensation. That sweet and delicious
feeling OVERLOOKING the soul after great
ly suffering is the road of the idealst.
This doctrine is deemed TO cover the
nature OF man, and fulfil his highest
aspirations. 1t is through this royal
road of anguish the spirit in man is
busy with its transformation. Science
itself in this view is the subllmest fact
of the idealist, He views all the forms
of life that has appeared on the globe as
adjusted to their proper surroundings,
and death the invisible link making
every ending beginning. From the
structureless DiOplasm in the Pliocene
sea to our own creation this wonde full
metamOrphosis has been going on,
every succeeding phenomenon of life
being gradual ascent from a proceed
ing term. 1t is this ascent, gradually,
in the forms of lie, that has made OAR
win the greatest poetical figure in
human history. Man being the sum of
all life, his destiny, if it has any
rational solution at all, is in idealizing
until from the mark Of any animal
trait of which he is the sum, disappears,
and he becomes spirit, an embodied
spirit, at first, that is, spirit in man
totally excluding evil, and following
good from a necessity of his higher
nature. This predicates his transfer
nation into pure spirit, seeing and
knowing the hidden forces of nature,
that, impalpable something to him at
present, such as electricity. This may
be aptly termed TRANSPORTATION.
TRANSPORTED he will be, and that as
piration now felt, is but new phase
of the law of selection. becoming what
nature has implanted in him as a wish.
Looking back and witnessing the won
derful order of life, the look forward
that man can become living soul is
neither absurd or inconsistent with the
revelations of science. The possibility
OF not dying may be an assumption
within present formula, but beyond
when mans spiritual nature voices
itself from earth to the sun and other
planets, it will be familiar talk as that
to-day of sun spots.
There are many avenues to thought,
but the idealist touches only with the
celestial wand, and merges earth into
heaven. To him the universe is one of
harmony, and the solution of his destiny
is in knowing his place in it. Then
there can be no death. Man is ever on
ward, the soul is ever upward, and the
moulding hand Of Deity, with unerring
wisdom and certain benevolence will
shape the higher forms into spiritual
beauty.