The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-11-03
UNSAFE LIFE-B0ATS.
Notes of Warning from DR.. Tai
mage.
Ehe LiSe-Boats of Theosophy. Good Works
and Christian Inconsistencies and
Their Defects-The Boat in
Which Is Room for All.

L Dewitt Talmage chose for his sub
Fect Unsafe Life-boats" The text
being, Acts xvii, 30: Then the sol
dicrs cut the ropes of the boat, and let
her fall off. After the Introductory,
DIR Talmage said:
Ny subject is Unsafe Life-boats. >
We cannot exaggerate the Importance
Of the life-boa All honor to the mem
CRY of Lionel Lulin, the coach builder
of Long Acre, London, who invented
1Izc first life boat, and do not blame
him Cor ordering put upon his tomb
stone in Kent the inscription that you
zsHzy still read there:
This Lionel Lullin was the first who
bUIit "A life-boat, aud was the original
Inventor of that principle of safety, by
VFhich many lives and much property
E5sze been preserved from shipwreck;
and he obtained for it the kings patent
IN She year 17s5.''
All honor to the memory of Sir Will
lam Hillary, who living in the Isle of
Nan, and after assisting with his own
hand IN the rescue of 3O5 lives of the
s3l5pVrecked, stirred the English par
BizH1eut to quick action in the construc-
E5aJs of life-bOats Thanks to God for
Che sublime and pathetic and divine
mission OF the life-boat. No one will
dSEz 1t its important mission who has
read az the wreck of the Amazon in the
Ray Of Biscay. of the Tweed running
va Che reefs of the Gulf of Mexico, or of
Ghe Ooean Monarch on the coast of
TEaies. or of the Birl1enhcad on the
Cane of Coed Hope, or of the Royal
Charter on the coast of Anglesea, or of
Che Exmouth on the Scotch breakers, or
~ Che Cambria on the Irish coast, or of
the atlantic on the rocks of Nova Scotia.
or 90 the Lexington on Long Island
ss0Czd To add still further to the
importance of the life-boat remember
there are at least 100000 men fol-
ESEiag the sea, to say nothing of the
sTpcounted millions this moment ocean
passengers. We 'land-lubbers," as
sailors call us, may not know the diff
6eCence between a marlinespillc and
reg bolt, or anything about heaving a
lssg, or rigging out a flying jib-boom,
Or furling top-sail, but we all realize
to 3 greater or less extent the import
amer Of a life-boat in every marine
equipment. But do we feel the inn
ESprtauce of a life-boat in the matter of
the souls rescue? There are times
wjscn we all feel that we are out at sea,
and as many disturbing and anxious
questions strike us as waves struck that
vessel against the sides of which the
Eife-boat of my text dangled Questions
about the church. Questions about the
tons about our eternal destiny. Every
thinking man and woman have these
questions, and in proportion as they
ire thinking people do these questions
arise. There is no wrong in thinking.
IL God had not intended us to think
and keep on thinking he would not
have built under this whecl-house of
the skull this thinking machine which
Ealts not in its revolutions from cradle
70 grave. Even the midnight does not
stOD the thinking machine, for When
Ne arc in dreams we are thinking, al
Enough we do not think as well All
of US who are accustomed to thinking
want to reach some solid shore of
safety and satisfaction, and if any one
has a good life-boat that we may hon
OrztOly take / wish he would unswing
1T from the davits and let us get into it
and put for shore. Bat give you fair
notice must first examine the life
boat before | risk nay soul in it or adj
wise you to risk your soul in it. All
the splendid Ramsgate life-boats and
Nargate life-boats and South Shields
tffe-boats and American life-boats were
tested before being put into practical
use, as to their buoyancy and speed.
aSd stowage and self-righting capac-
Tty- And when you offer my soul a
Eifs-boat | must first test it.
Here is a splendid new life-boat
called Theosophy. 1t has only a little
wGile been launched, although some
of 4he planks are really several thou
sz0d years old, and from a worm-eaten
ship, but they are painted over and
Ioo}z new. They are really Fatalism
Sz7d Pantheism of oiden time. But we
rssgast forget that and call them Theos-
SRhy. The Grace Darling of this life
Sroz1 MAS an oarswOman by the name
of Madame Blavatslly, bat the oars
zrsNn2n is now Annie Besant. So many
azc getting aboard the boat, it is
'E~oy1hy of eXamina ton, both because
OF the safety of those who have entered
Il and because we ourselves are invited
20 get in. Its theory is that every
zbiug is God. Horse and star
sAzd tree and man are parts of God.
We have three souls: An animal soul.
II human soul, a spiritual soul The
sz0imal soul becomes, after awhile, n
wandering thing, trying to express
Itself through mediums. 1t enters
beasts, OF enters a human being, and
-sF'bz1 you find an effeminate man it is
because woman's soul has got into
the man, and when You find a mascu-
line woman, it is because mans soul
has taken possession of a woman's
body II YOU find woman has be-
come platform speaker and likes pol
tics, she is possessed by a dead poll
&Scian, who forty years ago made the
platform quake. The soul keeps wan
<3cring on and on, and may have fifty
or innumerable different forms, and
6Hally is absorbed in God. 1t was
God at the start and will be God at the
last But who gives the authority for
The truth of such a religion? Some
beings living in a cave in Central
Asia They are invisible to the naked
eye, but they cross continents and seas
In flash My Baptist brother, DR.
Halderman, says that Theosophist in
New York was visited by one OF these
mysterious beings from central Asia.
The gentleman knew it from the fact
that the mysterious being left his
pocket handkerchief, embroidered with
his name and Asiatic residence. The
Rost wonderful achievement of the