The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1889-12-21
NUMBER 10.
better known than Mr.. Murray, and in his
death one of the old landmarks have been
removed.
Communicated.
The DALLEs, Dec. l6, 1889.
EUroR TlMEs.MouSrArsEER:

The DALLEs, Dec. l6, 1889.
| EDITOR nMEs-MouSTANEER:
The substantial philosophy teaches that
everything in the universe, visible or inyis-
ible, tangible or intangible, corporal or in
corporeal, Of which the mind can form
positive concept, is substance, or entity, in
some form or degree of grossness or attenu-
alton. That all the substances of the uni
verse as above expressed, are divisable into
two main departments, to-wit: Material and
immaterial, or corporal and incorporeal,
and that while all matter is substance, it by
no means follows that all substance is mat
ter, or material. The term matter or ma.
terial only embraces those substances which
are ponderable or otherwise susceptible of
chemical or mechanical test, or such as are
limited by material conditions. The term
substance not only embraces all material
things, as above defined, but it includes all
immaterial entities, such as cannot be
proved to exist by any chemical or mechan-
ical test. Substance in its immaterial de.
partment includes every force in nature,
physical, vital, mental or spiritual, aud in
cludes every form of energy which can posi-
lively produce a manifestation or motion of
sensuous body. The physical forces such
as light, caloric, sound, electricity, gravity,
etc., are as really substantial or entitive
as the air we breathe or the food we eat
The vital and spiritual forces which are
manifested in the vegetable and animal
Kingdoms, and which actuates all LIVING and
thinking organic beings, are as really SUBJ
stantial as are the beings and organisms
thus actuated and moved. The vital and
mental forces in an animated being which
must exist In order to move it, are as ver-
table substantial entities as are the wat
er, flre and steam in the locomotive which
moves the engine and causes it to perform
Its work. 1t teaches that all these imma-
terlal forces, physical, vital, mental and
spiritual are coeteInal with God; constitutes
his immediate environments, surroundings.
or attributes from which and in whose lab
ratory he synthesized all things visible. 1t
teaches that there is complete harmony be-
tween science and revelation; hence the
exits:
Heb. llsh, 3d.-We understand that The
worlds were framed by the word of God, 10
hat thing which are seen were not made
It things which do appear.
ID Cor. 4rh, lSth.-rur the things v hich
re seen are temporal, but the things which
re not seen are eternal.
Rom. Ilth, 36th.-For of him and
through him and back to him are all things.
And now the reader Is invited to a COM
,arison OF the substantial philosophy as
bove very briefly set forth to the philosophy
aught in some of our colleges and formu.
ated by such men as Tyndall Helmholtz,
huxley and Darwin, to-wit: That the ply
ical forces such as light, heat, sound, elec-
riclty, gravity, magnetism, and also the
1tal and mental forces, such as life, mind,
nd spirit, are but modes of motion among
Material particles, and not themselves SUBJ
tantial entities. They teach that matter
r material in some form is all there is in
he universe. of a substantial nature, and
hat what We call vital, mental and spirit
Ial force, by which the motions of our
odies are caused, and controlled, and our
houghts arc shaped, are but the molecular
notions OF the material brain and nerve
ARTICLES OF the living organism, and that
lie consists OF the motions OF the molecules
the brain, and when they cease to move
II that is of man is dead; the life, the soul
nd the spirit cease to exist. On the other
and the substantial philosophy maintains
hat as all things are of God Of whom are
II things; so all the elements of matter are
ut condensations of his exterior nature
nd not product of nothing; that physical
rganisns were condensed and framed out
that portion of Gods omnipresent SUBJ
lance suited to such material existeuces;
heir vital parts out of higher, finer grade
Gods substantial nature, while the ment-
faculties and spirit were but drops ont of
ne higher qualities of Gods substantial in.
slligence and spiritual essence. r.