Milford chronicle., 1893-10-27

animal soul becomes after awhile wan
dering thing, trying to express itself
through mediums. It enters beasts or en-
tiers human being, and when yOu find an
effeminate man it is because q woman
soul has got iSlo the man, and when you
find a masculine woman it is because a
mans soul has taken possession of a wom-
ans body.
If you find a woman has become plat
form speaker and likes politics, she is pos
sessed by dead politician who 40 years
ago made the platform quake The soul
keeps wandering on and on, and may have
80 or innumerable different forms, and
finally 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 a flash.
Ny Baptist brother, DR.. Haldeman, says
that a theosophist in New York was visit
ed 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 most won
derful achievement Of the theosophists Is
that they keep out Of the insane asylum
They prove the truth of the statement that
no religion ever announced was so absurd
but it gained disciples Societies iu the
United States and England and other Isnds
have been established for the promul 81 ion
of theosophy.
Instead Of needing the revelation Of a
Bible, you can have these spirits from d
cave in central Asia to ten you all You
ought to know, and after you lsave thls
life you may become a prima donna, OF a
robin, or a gazelle, ora sot or prizedghter
or a HerOd, or a Jezebel, and SO be enabled
to have great variety Of exp snce I0tat-
ing through the universe, nut rising, now
falling, now shot ont iu @ straight line
and now describing parabola, and on and
on, and up and up, and down and down, and
round and round. DON'T you seef Now,
that theosophic lifeboat has been launched.
1t proposes to take you of the rough sea
Of doubt into everlasting quietuie How
| do you like that lifeboatf My opinion is
you had better initiate the mariners Of my
/ text and cut off the ropes of that boat and
/ let her fall OFF.
THE MORALIsT's HOPE.
/ Another lifeboat tempting MS to enter is
made up of many planks OF good works.
/ 1t is really a beautiful boat-almsgiving
practical sympathies for human suffering,
/ righteous words and righteous deeds.
must admit like the looks of the prov,
/ and of the rowlocks, and of the paddles,
/ and of the steering gear, and of many who
are thinking to trust themselves on her
/ benches But the trouble about that life
/ boat is it leaks. I never knew a man yet
1 good enough to earn heaven by his virtues
y
| present on this blessed Sabbath all of whose
thoughts have been always right all Of
whose actions have always been right, and
| all of whose words have always been right,
| let him stand up, OF if already standing let
him lift his hand, and will know that he
lies.
| Paul had it about right when he said,
| SPY the deeds Of the law shall no flesh liv
/ ing be justified" David had itabout right
when he said, 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 the glory of God. " Let
man get off that little steamer called The
Maid of the Mist, which sails up to the foot
of Niagara falls, and then climb to the top
of the falls on the descending floods, for he
can do il easier than any man ever will 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 exactly right, you can
20 up to the gate of heaven, and you need
not even knock for admittance, but open it
yourself and push the angels out of your
way and 90 up and take one of the front
seats.
But you would be so unlike any one else
that has gone up from this world that you
would be a curiosity in heaven and more
fit for a heavenly museum than for place
where the inhabitants could look at you
free of charge No, sir, I admire your good
works, and that lifeboat you are thinking
of trusting in is handsomer than any yawl
or pinnace or yacht or cutter that ever sped
out of a boathouse or hOisted sail for a
race. But she leaks. Trust your soul in
that, and you will 80 the bottom. She
leaks. So / initiate the mariners Of the
text, and with a cutlass strike the ropes Of
the boat and let her fall Off
THE HOPE OF THE HYPOCRITE.
Another lifeboat is Christian Inconsist- !
encies. The planks of this boat are COM
posed of the split planks Of shipwrecbs /
That PROV is made out of hypocrisy from
the life of a man who professed one thing
and really was another. One oar of this
lifeboat was the falsehoOd of a church
member, and the other oar was the wicked |
ness of some minister Of the gospel whose I
iniquities were not for a long while found |
out. Not one plank from the oak of Gods /
eternal truth in all that lifeboat All the 1
planks, by universal admission, are de /
cayed and crumbling and fallen apart and |
rotten and ready to sink. "Well, wellP' |
you say. mo one will want to get into |
that lifeb0at."
Oh, my friend, you are mistaken. That |
is the most popular ifeboat ever CON I
structed That is the most popular life /
boat ever launched. Millions Of people /
want to get into it. They j0stle each other .
to get the best seat in the boat. You could (
not keep them back though you stood at /
the gunwales with a club, as on our ship
Greece in a hurricane and the steerage
passengers were determined to come up on
deck, where they would have been washed
off, and the officers stood at the top of the
stairs clubbing them back Even by such
violence as that you could not keep people
from jumping into the most popular life
boat. made of church member inconsisten-
cies. In times of revival when sinners flock
into the inquiry room the most Of them
are kept from deciding Alright because they
know so many Christians who are bad
The inquiry room becomes a worlds fair
for exhibition Of all the frailties of church
members, so that if you believe all is there
told you you would be afraid to enter
church lest you get your pockets picked or
get knocked down. This is the way they
talk: Il was cheated out Of $500 by leader
of Bible class" "A Sunday school teach
er gossiped about me and did her best to
destroy my good name" Il had partner
IN business who swamped our business con
cern by his trickery and then rolled up his
eyes in Friday night prayer meeting, as
though he were looking for Eliiah's chariot
to make a second trip and take up another
But what a cracked and water logged
and gaping scanned lifeboat the inconsist-
encies Of othersl Put me on a shingle mid