The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-23

parts Of God. We have three souls An
animal soul, human soul, a spiritual
soul. The animal soul becomes. after
awhile, a wandering thing trying 70 OK
press itself through mediums. II enters
beasts, or enters a human being, ana
when you find an effeminate man, IL is
/ because wOman's soul has got into the
man, and when you find masculine
woman, il is because a mans soul has
taken possession Of a wOman's body II
you find a woman has become platform
speaker and likes politics, she is possessed
by dead politician, who forty years ago
made the platform quake The soul
keeps wandering on and on and may
have fifty or innumerable different forms,
and finally is absorbed in God. 1t was
: God at the start and viii be God at the
last. But who gives the authority for
| the truth of such rell2lOni some be-
| ings living in a cave in Central Asa.
/ They are invisible TO the naked eye, but
they cross continents and seas in fash.
My Baptist brother DR.. Haldeman, says
that a TheosOphist in New York was
visited by one Of these mysterious beings
from Central Asia. The gentleman knew
/ il from the fact that the mysterious being
/ left his ocket-handkerchief embroidered
with his name and Asiatic residence.
/ The most wonderful achievement Of the
| Thcosophists is that they keep out Of the
/ insane asylum. They prove the truth of
/ the statement that no religion ever an
! nopnced was so absurd but it gained dis
/ CIples. Societies in the United States
! and England and other lands have been
| TheOsophy. Instead Of needing the reve-
! lation of a Bible, you can have these
| spirits from q cave in Central Asia to tell
! you all you ought to know. and after YOU
! leave this life you may become a
! prima donna or robin or Razclle or a
! sOt or a prize fighter or a HerOd or
| Jezebel, and so be enabled to have great
| variety Of experience, rotating through
| the universe, now rising. now falling, now
! shot out in a straight line and now de-
/ sCribing parabola, and on and on, and
/ up and up, ana down and down and
round and round. Don't you seel Now,
! that Theosophic lifeboat has been
! launched 1t proposes to take you of the
! rough sea of doubt into everlasting qui-
! etude. How do you like that lifeboatl
| My opinion is you had better initiate the
mariners of my text and cut off the ropes
| of that boat and let her fall on
Another lifeboat tempting us to enter is
| made up of many planks of Good Works.
| 1t is really beautiful oat-alms giving,
| practical sympathies for human suffering,
righteous words and righteous deeds l
must admit like the looks of the Prov
and ofsthe row-locks 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
! lifebOat Is, it leaks. | never knew a man
| yet good enough to earn heaven by his
virtues or generOsities. If there be one
| person here present on this blessed Sab
bath all of whose thoughts have been al
ways right, all of whose actions have
always been right, and all of whose words
have always been right, let him stand up,
or if already standing, let him lift his
hand. and / will know that he lies. Paul
had it about right when he said: by
the deeds of the law shall no flesh living
be justified" David had it about 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 of that little
steamer called "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 foods, for he can do it 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
il yourself, and push the angels out Of
your way, and 20 up and take one Of the
y
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 a place where the in
habitants could look at you free of
charge. No, sir. l 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 boat house or hoisted
sail for a race. But she leaks. Trust
your soul in that, and you will go to the
bottom. She leaks. So l initiate the
mariners Of the text, and with a cutass
strike the ropes of the boat and let her
fall off.
Another lifeboat is Christian Inconsist-
eucies. The planks of this boat are COM
posed of the split planks of shipwrecks.
That prov is made out of hypocrisy from
the lie of 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 wick
edness OF some minister of the gospel,
whose 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 planks by universal admission,
are decaycd and crumbling and fallen
apart, and rotten and ready to sink
well, we'll" you say. mo one will
want to get into that Hfeboat." Oh, my
friend, you are mistaken. That is the
most popular lifeboat ever constructed
That is the most popular lifeboat ever
launched. Millions of people want to get
into it. They jostle 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 de-
termined 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 VIC
lence as that you could not keep people
from jumping into the most popular life
boat, made of church-member inconsist-
encies. In times of revival, when sin
ners flock into the inquiry ROOM the most
of them are kept from deciding Alright be-
cause they know 50 many Christians who
are bad. The inquiry room becomes a
worlds fair for exhibition of all
the frailties of church mem
bers, 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 teacher gossiped about me,
and did her best to destroy my good
name II had partner in business who
swamped our business concern by his
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