The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-23
DEATH is A MI5NoMER.

is true, why continue the word? Why
use such meaningless phrases as these?
1.-THE day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt
surely de-" Yet the same writer says he
did eat and did not die for hundreds OF
years afterward. "Aiter death the judg-
ment." How consistent for millions to
enjoy the ecstatic, bliss OF heaven for
thousands OF years and then be judged, TO
ascertain il they ought TO remain always |
or 20 to hell. "All men must die"
"Sooner or later we must cross the river OF |
DEATH" "fe is gone 10 the bourne |
whence no traveller returns" Samuel,
Moses, Elias, and many Of the saints, did
return, II the Book is authority. death
is eternal, an everlasting sleep" 1.-THE
grim monster is at the door, waiting for
youth and beauty, old age and gray hairs
All ALL must de-" deaths pale horse
approaches to set free the imprisoned
spirit" "see, he has touched the rosy
check OF the sweet babe with his cold, icy
breath OF eternal sleep"
These and many moro similar express
| sions are used to designate the departure
OF the spirit from the earth sphere TO the
spirit world. The subject OF death is mis-
understood, hence these phrases are inn
properly applied. Death is q new birth.
| Except man bc born again lac cannot
enter the kingdom OF heaven" simply
means unless his spirit leaves the earth
body IL cannot enter the spirit world. IL
should have been SO translated. There are
many similar mistransations, conveying
erroneous impressions Death has been
styled dreamloss sleep that kisses down
the weary eyelids. Life is the bridge that
spans two cternites. We know not whence
We camo nor whittier We go. From the
yoiceless lips Of the unreplying dead there
comes no word, but in the night OF death
hope secs II star, and listening love hears
the rustic OF n wing"
Man Is a trinity-spirit, soul, body. The
body is OF the earth earthly, and consists
of olementaries called carbon, oxygen, hy-
drogen, forum, PHOSPHORUS, etc. These
constituents are well known portions OF
all visible matter and form. the earth,
moon, sun aud stars. The body emanates
from the earth, being collected and organ
lied by hespirit for It's own use aud pleas
urc while on the earth's surface. When
the spirit can no longer use its body salts
iaclorily, the body returns 10 the earth
whence ID came, and after dissolution be-
comes component parts OF other earth
bodies.
The soul is the spirit-body that accom-
panes the spirit, or the man, to the soul
world or spirt-world, sometimes called the
summer land, and is occupied by him
while there rs his house or caskct
The snail moves about encased In an
earth.she; so does man while on the earth
plane. when the snail no longer desires
10 remain in its shell II leaves 10 does
man; but when no leaves the earth, the
shell, or body used by him rs place Of
abode, remains on the earth and ro-en-
tiers other organizations; but his ethereal,
or spirit body, or soul, accompanies him 10
the soul world, and remains with hun In
"Abraham's BOSOM" In Paradise, or the
Kingdom Of Heaven, where there arc
many mansions. Whether he goes TO the
frsi, second or third heaven depends not
upon an imaginary atonement, but upon
his actions while here.
The man, or spirit, Is the ego-tho /,
the individual entity; an atom Of God
an emanalion from Deity. Tho spirit
thinks-rcasons, speaks, acts. feels, hears,
tastes, smells. weops, laughs, prays, sings,
eats, drinks; does right, does wrong and,
in brief, does all things done by man.
Tho spirit rs invisible TO the enrth.cyc,
being hidden within the caskoi, but is WIS.,
lille 10 the spirii-cyc, or clairvoyant.
Spirits are transparent, hence cannot tell
insehoods in the higher spheres, or play
hypOcritc In the spirit land, but often do
both In tho earth sphere. Hero they
readily deceive each other, nolwithstand'
ing they have read in the inialliblo book,
40 called, all liars, all hypocriics, have
their portion in the lake that burns. Spir.
ia liberated from carth's Cumbrous clay
can sec spirits In the earth form, but spir
IL still In the carih.house cannot &c,
those out OF Il, except those who posses
the second sight. or clairyoyant vision.
IL il the spirit that sins, not the body
l. Il Is the spirit that feels, not the body
The proof l., that the body Is Of itself in
. capable Of feeling, or SHINING. or doinI
ANYTHING after the spirit leaves IL Tx
ccpt the man leaves the body, lao canno
= enter the spirit sphcrcs,or the Kingdom {
heaven.
> death Ia the second birth. Death, 8
called, Is the happicst event OF earth LII
without II man cannot enter IN the M
spcakable Joys OF never ending folicit,
among the donizons OF tho celcstil
20 sphctcs. Mans casket begins 10 fall in
rs broken pieces soon after no leaves
- When It's solid elements become gases,
~ slowly dissolvcs aud asccnds from the graz
and minglos with the oxygen and niirog,
of the terrestrial atmosphere and by a
sorption and adaptation, rc-ontors aud I
forms new organizations capable Of sc
ke locomolon. II you plant q rose bush
the grave OF your spirit friend, who h
A' passed away, IL roots will pcrmcaie q
4. soil aud rcach and absorb tho asceudin
liberated. icrlilizing gases OF that friend
kc corporal organization, and by collati'
and adaptation II will by and bye produ
Ike new leaves aud swelling buds that will b
come a living beauty Of blooming ros
on and fragrant odora, caused by the dissol
ton anil resurrection Of tho decays
isc organization.
~ There Is no one special rcsurrccti'
y" morning, when the quick aud the dc
IN ehall appear before the final judgmo
throne oi Deity. Every day, every nigl
Old all DAYS, all nights are resurrection ia,
All hours, all days, all seasons, all yea
are Judgment periods All men are iudg'
=, Resurrection aud Judgment, like soul al
.r spirit, like life and death, are cgregiou,
,s. Misunderstood. So are heaven aud he
~ Both are conditions, not locations both q
states, not places. Heaven IL happiu
here and everywhere. Heaven comes
iall man. man does not 20 10 heaven. llcay
IA In man, man IN not In heaven, NJ
makes heaven within himself by doing
he would bc done by. Man makes
40 own hell by not doing as he would ha
others 10 do TO him. God Is love, a