The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-20
CHRISTIANITY.
By 1t We Must Learn of the Future
-Veritas' Views.

Life aud death are evident to my
SCI ses. 1 know that 1 am living
sentient being, and / also know that
death is inevitable. The question be-
fore the world is in reference to an
other or eternal state beyond the
grave. tbs said that no man has ever
returned to tell the story. and prove
beyond the shadow of a doubt that
there is an existence beyond, or that
man lives again in higher and better
state. Our language is inadequate for
fully explaining the Immortality of the
soul (body and spirit. There is no
doubt in reference to the eternal dura-
tion of matter and spirit. This is fully
admitted by men who are lnfidel. as
touching the Christian system. We
might go farther and say that men ad-
NIT immortality, whilst the Christian
system defines it. We are totally
ignorant OF individuality, before man
is born, and just as ignorant of individ-
knowledge of the eternal law of pro-
cause of mans present state of exist
ence. It is Gods knowledge of the
law of the resurrection that enables
him to say that man shall live again,
and accepting the declaration nothing
dies to God but alI;lives to Hin We are
bound to admit the vital life of the
universe as centering in Him. We can
not realize the nature of future state
until entering upon it. The new born
infant does not realize this life at birth.
It would be folly to say there is no ex-
istence because it is not realized on en-
tering this state. 1t is some time after |
birth before child can real re an ex-
istence. intellectually Our ignor-
ance when changing from one state to |
that OF another is no evidence that |
there was no past or no future state. |
The idiot realizes but very little of |
his present existence, yet he exists |
without realizing it, and but for his ab. |
normal condition, he would realize his |
existence even as others do who possess |
a better developed physical conslitu
ton. The reason that the infidel does |
L OF understand his own dual nature is
because he is not spiritually developed. |
The physical constitution of the lnfdel |
is not normal. and accounts for his neg.
alive position in reference to God and a
future state.
Colonel Ingersoll q speak respect
fully says there is no God because he
cannot comprehend Him. This is
idIotic. MIR. Ingersoll cannot define his
own dual nature, yet he exists. If he
cannot define his own nature, how can
he define the infinite God. No man
without revelation can define eternity,
or the eternal past AMI future OF matter
and spirit; yet it exists, and cannot be
comprehended without the divine
mind. The reason why men under
stand what they do arises from the fact |
that the spirit of man is the offspring |
of God Mon read and listen to the |
conversation of others, and, seemingly, |
the more they read and hear the greater |
unless they are able to link |
eternal laws and thus elevate the
human mind until it reaches the inf
mite in his universal government. |
Very frequently the minds of men
wander in pursuit of knowledge, some
time passing outside our solar system.
and speculate in probabilities and have
to come back empty handed, when |
they proceed to investigate and explain |
the nature of the universe by unfolding
which nature and condition they de-
clare exists in all worlds. 1t is but too
evident from the discoveries made by
that there are laws that
excel the laws that are know to man
without revelation. The Christian
system is the key to the universe; it
unfolds the nature and attributes of
God; it gives to man Deity Tin the
person of CHRISTI that can be compre-
hended and defined. and declares the
eternal existence of matter and spirit
which oenters and is perfected in God,
aud that matter and spirit united and
eternal law works in unity
Tor the express purpose of constituting
perfect being and a perfect universe
after the order of celestial or perfect
aw which God has intended shall reach
man by ths quickeniDg power Of the
of Christ, which power
will eventually reach every son and
laughter of Adams race in their own
time and place as declared in the Cos
pei. VERITAs.