Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-04-26

,r.a our instincts intimate n Fl,
no,h;nn nue. Nothing ever gravitates toward,
draw. ~ .nere must be another life tha
~as,r;o,eS ~, yeafplng souls. If we were
never $50 " this life, our thoughts would
re mo. "m oeyond the boundaries of death
~ MAJ receives his all in thi, life ha .ra..i,
nave been so constituted IA 70 ho s..;.enu
win MS all. We cannot believe Tho, ~, US :
goodness and nobleness which b.va fa. On sue
'eIt this world are DESTROYED. Tbev mn., ~
sarnered into Gods treasury. II "a ;nno..;
Uue 70 annihilate one particle of nat,a.
ninss are changed, but essences do M,
Ease 10 De-. Are will, conscience. thought
.e.e' exceptions! What force is there To 70.
.uce tnem to nothing? That death puts An end
soeAstence Is against all analogy. The uucon.
ecious cannot crush the conscious. So Ioro
aswe go on loving what has passed into ths
unseen so long is it certain that in the nm.
seen there is answering life. If death er.
'ineuisned our friends, the fact wouId ba
s.shailed from the unseen by the expiring of
our rove IN the seen. If love goes on LOVING
sne lovers must 20 on living. The confirm.
ance oI love as reality here, when one fac
'or mas passed into the unseen, involves the
.oni,nued existence of that factor in equal
nose whom we have loved are not mere
memories: They are each a sacred influence
upon our lives. The holy thoughts that come
W US we know not whence, the warnings for
d better, brighter life; what are these per.
CHANCE out the voices of the dead calling to
US IN accents strangely sweet? Is there apy
run more inspiring than this? Would it not
stay the angry thought, Danish as an evil
enins .ne wrong desire, to reflect that our de-
parted friends are ever near US? We shall
be better and drawer. if we dwell a little less
Oh the woridliness of the living, and little
more on the sacredness of the dead. Lot No
give to the death-days of our loved ones
something of the care and reverence we give
TO their birthdays. Let us discipline our.
serves in the thought of them, until the real.
ization OF their presence becomes to us An
Inspiration. Work n,hope on, until the day.
oreaK and the shadows flee away.
And with the morn those angel faces smile.
Aha1 nave loved long since and lost awhile "
In the evening there was a vesper service
which was we'll attended.
At the Free Baptist.
There was wealth of floral adornmen,
about the pulpit. A bank of geraniums. yer.
benas, foliage plants and evergreens, glowing
with color, covered the front of the pulpit.
while at the left was a stand supporting more
geranlums, intermingled with verbenas and
other bright Towering plants; and pretty
basket of white and yellow rosebuds and
plnks rested on table in front. On the pull.
PIT were several dainty vases of roses, daffo-
dlls and hyacinths. The pastor, Rev. Mr.
Jordan. preached from Romans VIII, "a
''lt il Christ that died. yea rather, that is
live, We shall live also" The resurrection OF
(,hrist q parAipo1 nj in Co.
Christian world, and fact fully attested BY
sacred and protane history. If it be not true,
those who wrote the gospels and epistles, were
either deceived or deceivers, the testimony
which the church has borne in all ages is
false, ant the hope that a redemption for sin
has been made, is without foundation. "But
now Is Christ risen from the dead" In what
way does the resurrection of Christ relate to
humanity? LIST, 1t gives conclusive proof of
His divine omnipotence. He had claimed tina,
He had power to clay down His life, and to
take it up again" I'd, 1t is an assurance of
way whereby sinful man may be reconciled
to God. His resurrection gives evidence OF
completed work. 1t was a proof that His
work of redemption was accepted by the
Father as a completed work, and hence be-
comes the foundation of the believers hope OF
eternal salvation. Sd, By virtue of this COM
pleted work Christ becomes the source of the
believers life. because l live, ye shall
live also" The condition of the natural man
as regards spiritual things, is that of death.
$50 be carnally minded is DEATH" The law
in nature that there can be no life without
antecedent life, is true in spiritual things.
Life cannot spring up of itself. 1t cannot
develop out of anything that is not life.
There is no spontaneous generation in re-
t.,,,- ~,
life, eternal life, it must come from higher
source He that hath the Son hath life
and he that hath not the Son, hath not life. -
4th, By faith in a risen Christ, the believer
may have assurance of triumph over death
and a pledge of his own resurrection. 9TH
The resurrection of Christ from the dead, is
an assurance of the certainty of a final and
irreversible day of judgment ''He hath ap-
pointed day in which he will judge the
world-whereof He hath given assurance I'M
to all men, in that He hath raised Him from
the dead"
Winthrop street Universalist Church.
At this church the platform and desk were
profusely ornamented with flowers, in taste.
full manner. The music was select and splen.
didy rendered by choir and organ. The at
tendance was very large. The sermon was
great ability and was listened to with the
most profound attention. The subject
of his discourse was, The Incredibility
and Credibility of Immortality. The text is
found in Acts XVI, 8, "Why should it be
thought thing incredible with you that God
should raise the dead" Alleged facts are in
credible if at all for one of three reasons
lst, because they are self-contradictory End,
because they are contrary to well known
facts or laws; 3rd, because lying beyond our
observation and knowledge are unsupported
by testimony. Now Immortality if incredible
at all must be 80 for the last named reason,
and here is where some people place it. They
say that the soul after leaving the body is
not seen, heard or felt. But the fact that q
thing is not revealed to the senses affords no
grounds for disbelieving its existence. To
the deaf man there is no music in the sum-
mer ar to the blind man there is no beauty
in the June grass and flowers; do they not
exist therefore? Here is piece Of coal; in
it and other piece like it there is gas
to light your house. heat to warm
it, ammonia. carbolic acid, naphtha, paraffine,
aniline dives; can you feel, taste or smell any
of them in the coal? Are they Dot therefore
there because out of the range of your
senses?
But there is IN some minds a deeper cause
for incredibly. TIE materialist doubts i'm
mortality because he says there is no soul
apart from brain and bodily organization. So
il sometimes appears. A pressure of the
skull upon the brain suspends, until the pres
sure is removed, the action of the whole
mental machinery. "A diseased brain, weak
&c, sob ia