The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-07-11

\ ments of the bioplasts can be distinct.
seen. The movements weave out al
intelligent effect or plan. They weay'
nerves and bone. and muscle, and ar
teries, and coordinate them in the
f.,y woNDRoUs PLAN OF MAN.
! But these movements must have |
cause, and cause must exist outside O
its effects. The intelligent and wiry
woven plan must have an intelligent
cause, and this cause exists before thu
plan-it forecasts the plan. A plan il
Enthusiastically executed. But plan log
ically implies forecast, and forecast IL
an attribute of mind. The mind, there
fore, that weaves about it from year te
year its garments of flesh, exists before
organization. 1t may exist, therefore,
after organization, and death does not,
therefore, end all.
The cause of these bioplasmic move
ments must be immaterial. Inertness
is a property of all matter. All philos-
ophers recognize it to be an attribute of
matter. Matter once in a state of rest
can never move unless operated on by
force outside of and above it. And
for the same reason when it is in motion
it cannot stop itself. Now the
CAUSE OF THESE MOVEMENTS
in bioplasm is in the light of the micro
scope, self acting and elf-co-ordinating.
The cause is not, therefore, subject to
the law of inertia. 1t is, therefore, an
immaterial cause. 1t is also intelligent,
for it Co ordinates an intelligent change,
in which it expresses itself and realizes
its individual And since
it can exist before organism, it may ex-
lst after, and death, therefore, does not
end all. And death failing to end all,
what does or can? Itell you, thought
cannot stand to brain as
HARMONY TO HARP.
Vary the cause and you would vary the
effect. Increase the cause and you in
crease the effect; or diminish the cause
and you diminish the effect. Now, you
may take off mans arms and he re-
tains the integrity of his mental consci-
business. Take off his lower limbs and
the same fact remains. Dig out his
eyes, cut out his tongue, pull out his
teeth, scalp him and take out one hem
isphere of his brain, and he lives and
af1irms the unity of his mental consci-
business and the identity and individual
ity Of his spiritual selfhood. And these
facts forever stand to defeat the theory
that brain and thought are related as
cause and effect. This indiYisibility of
consciousness affirms the deathless ma
ture of man. 81 think, 81 suffer, ," II
love-" II will" Consciousness is an
intelligent unit. This indivisibility of
mental consciousness proves its inde-
structibility and therefore, its immor-
tality.
The instincts of the soul affirm our
Immortality. They put man on the an
ticipative of the immortal life just as
they guide the migratory bird, teach
ing it that there is a tropical and fow-
cry Sooth far away from Northern
lakes and oceans of ice. Instincts are
=. J--t PROMISES OF NATURE,
and, therefore, of God. These in
stincts declare a future state of men.
And if man lives after death, then
death docs not end all. And if it does
not, what does or can? If there be no
future state, no life for man beyond
the grave, a man with these instincts
hangs on half hinges, and his whole
nature is unskillfully made and above
all lorganized lie. The moral meanings
of mans life declare our triumph
over death. All life and culture and
civilization point US forward to the use
and enjoyment of the discipline that
comes from the curriculum of our
world life. If death ends all, why all
these hives of wisdom and treasures of
knowledge? The heart Of man says
it cannot be. The language of the
affections, sweet and pure as angel
dreams, the loves of this life and the
holy friendships of our world are a
mockery and without a
MORAL MEANING IF DEATH
ends ALL The purest loves of our
race in its highest and hottest hours
and most luminous experiences protest
against this gospel of Dust Like a.
great story or novel the thoughts and
loves of this life ends here, "to be
continued.'' Man has intuitions of in
finitude in time, casus and space. He
realizes himself as related to the eter-
mites, immensities and infnities.
These make the map of mind. These
certainties of consciousness, these in
tuitions of intellect and faculties of
infinitude, call for a longer world than
the present with its few brief years.
They demand an infinite future as the
complement of such. infinite longings.
And these facts demand ae
81 A BoUNDLEss FUTURE 4aimss
for man, and, therefore, his immortal
ity. And his Immortality successfully
contradicts the affirmation that "Dea, h
ends all.'' The resurrection of Christ,
which L have proved in this course of
sermons, proves his divinity. And the
divine Christ attests The su lime fact
of our immortality, He arose from
the dead, holding with deathless grip
the sublime tact of an endless life.
What He affirmed Of Himself He has
affirmed of the whole human race.
The immortality of man is, therefore.
a granite fact in the universe. We
should labor to appreciate il. 1t win
soothe us when death shall blow his
breath on our cheeks, and will make
the blood of the soul leap with new
life and rest confident of victory over
death, bell and the grave.
IN THE LIGHT OF SCIENCE