The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-12-07
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A Tramp on Religion

HAS not Doen silSnteu Oy bneSe perlpaJe-
tic gentry. You meet all styles and
manner Of men amongst them, from the
bcardless STRIPPING, who either from in
'Scrent indolence or from lack of force
OF character is out of employment, to the
ho'sry heated, hard-visaged, grimy Old
bum, who. like Bardolph, considers the
world as his oyster, and intends To open
u. As the tramp adyaucas i'll years he
uevelops ~ assurance, in guile aud IN
. knowledge of human nature. They
pick up = vast deal of current informa.
ton in their wanderlngs, COO, and get to
be great takers. You often meet
among them men of superior lntelli-
gene aud culture, and when you get
one Of these to talking you can always
learn something aud be Interested.
onr reporter met one of this
long chat with him. He was
man past 80 years of age, he said, aud
had in his time Travelled through all the
countries OF the word. He was W II ed
ucated, of strong intellectual powers,
and as charming a conversationAlist as
one Will meet in a decade. Like all
tramps he was dirty, shabby and az
kempt, but unlike the majority Of the
genus, he neither drank or used tobacco.
The reporter thinF he was slightly in
sane, to tell the truth, but he was enter
tanning and interesting for all that. His
mind seemed TO dwell more upon relig-
ion and upon religious subjects than
npon any other one thing, though he
discoursed upon various matters" rhere
are he said, "a great many people in
this world who still believe in the Pyth
agofean doctrine of the transmigration
OF souls. This dream and fancy of the
Oh Greek philosopher is indeed but Il
dream, q fancy on the whole, still there
are souls in the economy oiGod's creation
that ale re-habilitated in the flesh at
regular or irregular inter-
walls OF time as the years
and centuries pass by. Not only are
these the souls, the ghosts Of men, but
81 animals also. Now | know that [
nave lived on earth twice before, and
that each time this miserable, hard-vis-
aged, yellow cur you see lying there"
pointing to dog close bv, "was with
me, showing my fortunes; his lot in life
Identical with mino. / know, too, that
each successive time of our inha citation
Ok The earth, and my dog, | call him
unta, have occupied "A higher scale in
teilectually and spiritually. 1t may
seem strange to you, yet have an inner
CONSCIOUSNESS, knowledge or reco!oc-
1on--call 1t what you wil-of the hap.
penings and of the events in my life,
each time / have lived on the GARTH
prior to this time. My name is rropho-
mus Rhampsinitos, and the first time |
lived on earth was when the tower Of
Babel was being built ] was born in
the land of Khiva, somewhere to
the north Of Persia, this being the
second cradle of the human race, that
Is, that part of the globe peopled
BY Noah's descendants after tho food.
of The worlds history prior to my birth
!, oil course, know nothing personally,
hut tradition and tradition is ALWAYS
correct and reliable--tclls us that the
descendants OF Adam and Eve having
multiplied and filled much of the eartn
became wicked and sinful and God de-
stroyed them all save Noah and his
wife and his three sons and the wife OF
ascn. Alter the flood NOah's offspring
rapidly increased and soon there as a
great multitude of people in the world
Noah worshlpod the one and true God,
anu IL was q pure worship which he
preserved and handed down to his sons,
cut as time progressed the generations
became hard-hearted and fstiff.necked
and forgot the true God ald His prom
ises and became idolatrous Thoy knew
the people of the earth hat been de-
stroyed bya flood, and in their igno-
rance they thought TO circumVent
Jehovah by building tower
so high it could not be
covered by any flood, and thus thew
could preserve themselves. This was
but u foreordainod event in the worlds
history, 9 means ad0ptedby tho Creator
. Tor peopling all the parts Of the earth,
and lie made the tower OF Babel tho or
IGN OF the various languHges and ma
honallties OF the world. Up % that
umo there had been but one language
known to man, and before the hearts of
tho people bee anne hardened and
wicked there had been but one religion.
but one worship. the worship OF the one
aud the true God, Jehovah, the Creator
ana RULER OF the Universe, and This true
laith mad come down from generation
TO generation. While tho tower OF Ba.
bel was being built the confusion of
languages came. All ! remember yycu
that day. H. seems bat as Yesterday,
although thOusAudsCt years have passed
since then, Nations have sprung into
existence, have founded dyu.stiss and
have persisted SINCE then; still
u seems but as yesterday 90 me. / was
nut boy then, playing with other bows
about tho foot Of the tower amid the
stones, and rs memory after mpmory
comes orowding thick upon me. / feel
my brain almost bursting. suddenly
tne workerS began TO speak IN strange
tongues. 20 gibber and 10 mouth III each
other. There was Consideration ON the
faces OF all; fear in The hearts of ali,
They could not understand each other.
snd the work of building had 60 cease,
Then by degrees those who could nm
derstand each other began TO assemble
together, and soon they began 10 form
communities TO themselves, and then i'm
little while they began to wander on,
some going north, some TO tho south,
some 10 the cast and some to the west.
In this way the nations were formed
and divided oil. AS thoy scnttorsd nm /
were left To their rccollections OF
the religion aud the worship OF the
true God, their religions began Ia
change ana uiifor from that they had
Known when together. As the streams
OF population poured from the mnun-
tains or Armenia, from the land OF
khlya into all parts Of the world north.
west INTO Europe, west into Asia-Ninor.
southwest into Egypt, and Africa, south
into Arabia, southeast into Persia and
lhuia and east into China, lhoir habits
and characteristics began to charge and
uliier irom each other, and .helr W Or
SNIP changed TO, and ntied itself Il
their Surroundings. This was = prn-
vision Of Jehovah. intended tor the nan
piness and the welfare of man. II. az
course, took ages and centuries ior M
nations 20 reach the more distant lands.
and Il was many hundreds OF wears
AFTER the delugo before Tho weslorn
shores OF the Pacific were rosched
America WAS peopled by vouturesomp
spirits from the western shores OF Tho
Pacific, who sailing in canoe,
We're swept away by tho Kuro Shilys,
inc black stream that sets 90 the north,
thon TO the cast, aud thouce down again
southward. All these peoples OF the
earth have similar traditions. which 20
TO show they all came from the same
source. all worshipped one God origi-
nsiiy, and that all religions now are but
types, forms aud notifications of the
one and true religion, all worghips but
tno worship of tho one aud true God.
The earliest and oldest civilizations oi
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