The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-30
Life Beyond the Grave.

| lives a spiritual life after death is not Ques-
toned by anyone who believes In the teach
ings OF the New Testament. But there are
many, yea, thousands, who do not believe
| in the Immortality of the soul or q spiritual
| man after death. Reasoning from natural
70 spiritual law, am very much inclined
| to believe in the spiritual life OF man.
! Death is but q new birth and nothing else.
| Nothing is lost in this world; il cannot be
! lost or annihilated. l am somewhat in
clined 60 think that will be put TO some
| good use somewhere else when leave this
world.
Man is the only animal that dies imper-
feet. He dies learning something new every
day If he but uses his brain, his seat Of
| thought, the home of the soul. Does il not
stand to reason, reasoning from natural 70
| spiritual law, that when he throws off his
mortality and takes on his immortality,
| that'his education will still go on, be learn
| ing something new every day in his new
| home of exfstencel There is no limit to
thought in this world, and why should there
| be any in any other!
Man has some forty-two organs in what
is termed his brain. All are as distinct as
the fingers upon his hand or the teeth in his
| head. Yet all cooperate more or less
| give strength TO each other. Man has a g.
story brain, an animal only one One
knows nothing about death and never fears
! 1t, and makes no preparations for it. The
other ever thinks of it, talks Of it and fears
it. The third story of the brain is in the
region of the intellectual and spiritual or
| gans, the organ of prayer, and man has it
strong, called veneration. Alteration, and
| desire TO pray or 20 worship something or
somebody has ever been present with man,
| beings worthy to be called thinking Greats
ures. Man has worshiped any and every
thing, according to his education and in-
clinations.
Al.
| man is found in Genesis in the birth Of Cain
and Abel. Tney were twins and declared
| the twofold character of man his carnal
| and spiritual natures. OF course the story
is an allegory, like many Others in the Bible,
| but 1t conveys great truth. Cain repre-
sents the natural carnal man, the agnostic
and materialist of our day; the Sadducees of
the Jews and the materialists Of other na-
| lions.
Cain knew nothing, saw nothing, felt
nothing, cared for nothing and had no in
| terest in anything but what contributed to
| his physical wants. He had no spiritual
wants, knew nothing about such things and
cared less. His Offering was the fruits of
| the ground, something to be enjoyed, tenn
porsl in nature and perishable. Abel, on
the contrary, killed a lamb. Blood is sym
bolical of an inner life; without blood one
| dies, and so long as the blood Is warm and
| flows through the veins man will live. Abel
represents the spiritual nature of man, the
| praying nature, the worshiping nature as
| opposed to fhe carnal man, who lives with
| out God in the world.
Said Abel to Cain by his offering, and its
acceptance by God: Do you not see that
| you have dual nature? that you are really
| double mans that this world is not our
| home forever, and that man lives beyond
| the graves Cain. with the csrnal passions Of
his nature, said to Abel: l know nothing
| O.. I'D Il k.ro
| nothing OF any other life than this. pro~
pose to crafty my passions and desires
| while live and die like the animals, differ
| ing only in degree but not In kind.
Not so, said Abel; you are both mortal
and immortal, and must 80 live. Cain, with
| the club of his passions and appetites slew
| Abel, his better nature, his spiritual nature
became, as it were, totally depraved. But
God steps in and asks of Cain, "Where Is
| thy brotherW The curse or mark set upon
| Cain was an awakened conscience, soma
thing he did not know he had until he COM
mitted the crime. The self-accusing con-
science in Cain were those who were going
! to slay him upon sight, and well might he
exclaim: MY punishment is greater than
can bear" The nllegory is beautiful
one when thoroughly understood in all of
its esoteric meanings So of the Garden of
| Eden.
When Job asked: "If man die, shall he
live again?" he but voiced a question that
every thinking, reasoning, intelligent man
| asks himself, The answer may come back
to him as to Job: "But man dieth and vast
eth away; yea, man giveth up the ghost,
| and where is heW But Job believed in
some sort of Immortality for himself, for he
! says: ''And though after my skin worms
destroy this body, yet out Of my flesh shall
l see God" Mans desire for Immortality
| beyond the grave is not dream, myth, a
mere hope or a keen desire. 1t is real posi-
tive, active. Man does live after he lays
aside his body. Death is but the polite and
agreeable introducer of the spiritual man
into spiritual world; he is thought to be
an enemy when he is really the best OF
| friends to us.
Man does not carry into the spiritual
world his education or business. That he
leaves behind him, as he does his possessions
and old clothes. He has no use for such
| things there. He carries, and IL Is O deep,
serious thought to the living, his real char
acter, his real self, where there can be no
such thing as disguise, hypocrisy or lying.
| We come into this world naked, and if
about us 1t cannot be hid. So In the spir-
itual life we step into our spiritual nature
| naked, and we are read instanter. The
hypocrite in religion cannot longer wear a
dress to deceive. The mean man In every
particular and respect will stand out as the
| rascal, SCOunQrels Detrayera ueCelVers ana so
judged. Beyond the grave we will not
have accusers-our life as written all over
our whole spiritual nature will be the only
evidence needed.
But that society, organization. or con-
dition which shuts the door in the face of
repentance, reform or betterment is bad, /
care not whether 1t be on earth, In heaven
In hell, or more correctly speaking, in the
spiritual world. II man repents and re-
forms on earth he is forgiven; carry that
natural law into the spiritual world and
why not give him another opportunity to
better himselfs 1t is with him and no one
else just as it is here on earth. If a man
chooses to make a hell of this world ne can
| do SO; il he tries to make IL a
place Of happiness he can do So.
When Mary Magdalene. a common
doxy, repented of her sins, Jesus did
not spurn her; not at all When the woman
taken in adultery was brought to him did he
shut the door of repentance and reform in
her facea Hear him: Neither do | con-
denim thee; CO. sin no more" AS l expect to
step some OF these days into the spiritual
world, want to make as decent an appear
ance as possible, or as my nature will per-
init. K M. o.