Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-28
UNSAFE LIFE-BOATS.
Notes of Warning from DR.. Tai
mage.
The -Boats of Thcosophy, Good Works
and Christian Inconsistencies and
Their Defects-The Boat In
Which Is Room for All.


being, Acts xvii. -: "Then the SOL
licrs cut the ropes of the boat, and let
her fall off, After the introductory,
DIR. Taimage said:
My subject is Unsafe Life-boa "
We cannot exaggerate the Importance
of the life boat. All honor to the men,
ory of Lionel Lullin, the coach builder
of Long Acre, London, who invented
the first lfe-boat, and do not blame
him for ordering put upon his tomb
stone in Kent the inscription that you
may still read there:
This Lionel Lukin was the first who
built life-boat, and was the original
inventor of that principle of safety, by
which many lives and much property
have been preserved from shipwreck;
and he obtained for it the kings patent
in the year 1855"
All honor to the memory of Sir Will
lam Hillary, who living in the Isle of
Man, and after assisting with his own
hand in the rescue of 305 lives of the
shipwrecked, stirred the English par
lament to quick action in the construc-
ton of life-boats Thanks to God for
the sublime and pathetic and divine
mission of the life-boat No one will
doubt its important mission who has
read of the wreck of the Amazon in the
Bay of Biscay; of the Tweed running
On the reefs of the Gulf of Mexico, or of
the Ocean Monarch on the coast of
-. - n;,.lyan l,aa1 thu
Cape of Good Hope, or of the Royal
Charter on the coast of Anglesea, or of
the EXmouth on the Scotch breakers, or
of the Cambria on the Irish coast, or of
the Atlantic on the rocks of Nova Scotia,
or of the Lexington on Long Island
sound. To add still further to the
Importance of the life-boat, remember
there are at least 100000 men fol-
lowing the sea, to say nothing of the
amounted millions this moment ocean
passengers. We ''land-lubbers," as
sailors call us, may not know the diff
ference between marlincspilie and
ring bolt, or anything about heaving n
log, or rigging out flying jib-boom,
or furling top-sail, but we all realize
to greater or less extent the import
ance of life-boat in every marine
equipment. But do we feel the i'm
portance of life-boat in the matter of
the souls rescue? There are times
when 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
life-boat of my text dangled Questions
about the church. Questions about the
world. Questions about God Cues
tions about our eternal destiny. Every
thinking man and woman have these
questions, and in proportion as they
are thinking people do these questions
arise There is no wrong in thinking.
II God had not intended us to think
and keep on thinking he would not
have built under this wheel-house of
the skull this thinking machine which
halts not in its revolutions from cradle
to grave
Here is splendid new life-boat
called Theosophy. 1t has only a little
while been launched, although some
of the planks are really several thou
sand years old, and from worm-eaten
ship. but they are painted over and
look new. They are really Fatalism
and Pantheism of olden time. But we
must forget that and call them Theos-
ophy. The Grace Darling of this life
boat was an oarswoman by the name
of Madame BlavatslSy, but the oars
woman is now Annie Besant. So many
are getting aboard the boat, it is
worthy of examination, both because
of the safety of those who have entered
it and because we ourselves are invited
to get in. It's theory is that every
thing is God. Horse and star
and tree and man are parts of God.
We have three souls: An animal soul,
a human soul, spiritual soul. The
animal soul becomes, after awhile, a
wandering thing, trying to express
itself through mediums. 1t enters
beasts, or enters human being, and
when You find an effeminate man it is
because q woman's soul has got into
the man, and when you find n mascu-
line woman, it is because n mans soul
has taken possession of woman's
body. If you find woman has be-
come platform speaker and likes pol
tics, she is possessed by dead poll
tician, who forty years ago made the
platform quake. The soul keeps wan
dering on and on, and may have fifty
or innumerable different forms, and
finally is absorbed in God. 1t was
God at the start and will be God az the
last But who gives the authority for
the truth of such q religion? Some
beings living in cave in Central
Asia They are invisible to the naked
eye, but they cross continents and seas
an fash. My Baptist brother, DIR.
Halderman, says that q Theosophist in
New York was visited by one of these
mysterious beings from central Asia
rThe gentleman knew 1t from the fact