Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-10-27

| lifeboats " ere tested, before being put
into practical use as TO their buoyanry
and speed. and stowage and self
rightiug capacity. And when you
offer my soul n lifeboat i must d st
test il.
Here is splendid new ifeboat
called Theosophy. II has only IA it'll =
while been launched, al houph some of
the planks are really several thousand
years old, and from a 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
Theosophy. The Grace Darling of
this lifeboat was an oarswoman by the
name OF Madame Bavatslly, but the
oarswoman now is Annie liesaut So
many are getting ard the boat, it is
worthy Of examination, both ecaas
Of the safety OF those who have en-
tered it and because we ourselves are
invited to get in. It's theory is that
rything is God. Horse and star and
tree and man are part, of God. We
have three sou S: An animal soul. q
human soul, n spiritual soul. The
ami al soul becomes, after a while, I'd
wandering thing, trying to express it,
self through MEDIUMS. lite ers beasts,
or enters n human being, and when you
find an etfeminate man 1t IS ecause a
woman's soul has got into the
man, and VIII, n YOU find a masculine
woman, - is be ause a mans soul has
taken possession OF q woman's 10 Y.
If you find a woman has become a
platform speaker and likes politics,
she is posse SEQ by dead politician,
VIII forty yea ago made the plat
form quake The soul keers wan err
ing on and on, and NAV have fl ty or
iunnmera BILE different forms and finally
is absorbed in God. l was cod at tue
start and W III be God 4 the asst. But
who gives the AUTHORITY for the truth
Of such a religion? some beings living
IN cave in Central ASIA. They a e
invisible t the naked eye, out they
cross continents and seas in flash
My Baptist brother, Or. Hald man, says
that a TheosophjsJ in New York was
visited by one of these mysterious
beings from Central Asia. The gen
tleman In W { from the fact that the
mysterious being left his pocket-hand-
kerchief, en- broidered w tn his name
and Asiatic residence. The most
wonderful achievement of the Theo~o
phis is that they keep out of he in
sane asylum. They prove TIE truth of
the statement that no religion ever
announced was SO bsurd but gained
disciples. Societies in the United
) ates and England and other lands
have been establ shed for tn promul-
CATION of The sosophy. Instead OF heed
ing the rev latiun Ol a tible, you can
have these spirits from cave in zen
trial Asia to tell you all you ought TO
know, and after You lea u thi life you
may become u prima donna or a rooin
or a gazelle, or u 500 or % pri e-tighter
or lierod or deZebel, and SO be en-
abled to have great variety OF expert
en- G, rotating thrOu- h the IN verse,
now rising, now fallinr, now shot
out in straight line, and now de-
scribing p Iabola, am on and on,
and no AMI up, and q wn and down,
and ron and round. Don you see?
Now, that lheCso hiclifeb at has been
launched. 1t propos to take you ali
Oft the rough sea Of douu / into ever
lastiny quietude. Low do you like
that lifeuo4t? My opinion i YOU Il d
better initiate the mar uers Of my text.
and cut oil the ropes OF that boat and
let her fall of.
Another liIeboat tenn ting us to
ente Is MAZE up If many planks of
good works. 1t is really beautiful
boat aims giving, practical S, m a.
thles for human suffering, righter us
words and righteous deeds | must
admit / like the looks of the prov and
of the row-lo. ks and o. the paddles
and Of the steering gear and of manv
who are thinking TO trust themselves
on her benches. But the trouble
nh - Il
never knew man good enough to
earn heaven by his virtues or gener-
osities. If there be one person here
present on this blessed sabbath all of
whose thoughts have been always
right, all of whose actions have al
ways been right, and all of whose
words have always been right, let
him stand up, or if already stand ng,
let him lift his hand, and l will know
that he les. Paul had it about right
when he said: by the deeds
of the law shall no flesh living
be justified" David had iC about
right wnen he i'd There is none
that doeth good, no not one" The
old book had it about right when it
said; "All have sinned and come
short of he glory of God" Let
a man get off that little steamer
called The Maid of the list which
sails up to the foot of Niagara falls,
and then climb e. the top OF the falls
on the descending Hoods, for he can do
1T easier than any man will ever be
able TO climb to heaven by his good
works. If your thoughts have always
been exactly right. and your words
exactly right and your deeds ALWAYS
ex city right you C n go up to the
gate of heaven, and you eed not even
kno, k for admittance, but open it
yourself, and push the angels out of
your way, and go up and take one of
the front seats. But you would be so
unlike anyone else that has zone up
from this world that you would be "a
curl sity N heaven, and more fit for a
heavenly museum than for place
where the inha bitants could look at
you free of charge. No, sir, admire
your good WORKS, ami that lifeboat
you are thinking of trusting in is
han somer than any yawl or pinnace
or acht or cutter that ever sped out
of a boathouse or hoisted sail for
race. But she leaks. Trust your soul
in that, and you will 90 to the bottom.
she leaks. So initiate the mariners
of the text, and with IA cutlass strike
the ropes of the boat and let her fall
off.