St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-19
THE T LIFE.
DR.. Fay, of Boston, Reasons on the
Immortality of the Soul.

DR.. S. P. Fay, of Boston, preached
yesterday morning at Plymouth Congre-
g~ational church to a good audience. DR..
Fay has been filling the pulpit ever
since DR.. Thwing started on his vaca-
ton early in the summer, and has held
a good attendance despite the warm
Sundays. Yesterday was his last APP
pearance at the church, and different
ministers will preach at Plymouth
church until the return of DR.. Thwlng,
the first Sunday in September.
DR.. Fay yesterday took his text from
the fourteenth chapter of Job and four
teenth verse: "If a man die shall he
pointed time will | wait till my change
come"
In opening he said ''That we die is
certain. Is it equally certain that we
shall live again? But why should there
be any more doubt that man shall live
again than that he must die? Why
should there be those in any age who
deny our souls an o%verruling, wise and
mighty power? Why should the infidel
endeavor to persuade men that there is
no God and no future existence? There
are those who labor to prove it. But
why should they endeavor to persuade
men that a blind.force presides over the
affairs of men, and never discriminateS
between the good and bad? Why be 81
industrious in e~ndeavoring to persuade
men that the soul, the only thing that
we admire or love in each other, is only
a feeble breath that yanisheS at the
portal of the tomb? Can they believe
that the idea of humiliation will inspire
the soul of man with more pure and
sublime sentiment than thatof eternity.
Suppose the infidel persuade US that at
death we cease to exist. Will that
thought inspire US with more respect
for ourselves or our ~neighbors? Will it
enable US to bear more patiently
the wants and cares and suffer-
ings of life? Will that thought
fill us with a stronger love for
each other or for our country? Would
that give US more courage to meet
death? When we must mourn the loss
of one dear to US as Jul life, can we bear
to think that his purest part. that soul
so tenderly loved must be buried with
the body in an eternal sleep?
ION the other hand, does it not make
you more joyous and inspire you with a
brighter hope to think that our friends.
though dead, still live and minister to
our spirits? Upon what principle then
do these SadduceeS think to console you
while wheeping over the coffin of a be-
loved one by telling you that nothing
remains of them but loathsome dust?
"Since then this doctrine shocks every
noble principle in our natures, blasts
every generous hope and cuts down
every noble aspiration, they ought to
bring forward the strongest possible
proof in favor of their theory of ami
hilation before they.ask you to receive it.
But upon what do they found their the
DRY? Not upon the Bible. for they deny
any word of inspiration. Its whatth they
call universal reason. They say they
will receive nothing but what reason
teaches them through nature.
sit may strengthen our own faith in
this sublime truth of eternity if we look
at it from this point of reason.
LET US inquire first. What says our
spiritual nature concerning the doctrine
Of future llfe?'"
In answering this question DR.. Fay
took for his starting point a truth that
all must admit, saying: 1.-The soul is
known to exist here for a period. 1t is
strong and fair presumption that it will
not cease to exist unless something
comes in to break that presumption"
The great question to consider, he said,
was whether death was an occurrence
to break the presumption of a continued
existence. He arrived at the answer to
the question in the words: "Do We