Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-11-09

ett+AAFA a. well. 4At1OI us WHO DIT
: accustomed to thinking want to reach
some solid shore of safety and satisfac-
Iaction, and if anyone has a good life
BOAT that we may honorable take.
VISA he would unswing it from the
aavits and let MS get into it and pull
Tor shore. But | give you fair notice,
must hrst examine the lifeboat be-
lore risk my soul in it or advise Won
70 risk yonr soul in it. All the SPLEEN
did Ramsgate lifeboats. and Margate
ilieooats and South Shield lifeboats
and American lifeboats were tested be-
lore being put into practical use. as to
thelr b1oyancy and speed. and stowage
ana self-righting capacity. And when
you offer my soul lifeboat / must first
test it.
Here IS splendid new lifeboat called
lheosophY. 1t has only little while
been launched, although some of the
planlSs are really several thousand
years old and from a worm-eaten ship,
out they are painted over and look
new. They are really Fatalism and
fantheism 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 Madam
biavatsky. but the oarswoman now is
annie Besant. So many are getting
aboard the boat, il is worthy OF exam
nation, both because of the safety of
those who have entered it and because
we ourselves are invited to get in. Its
theory is that everything is God Horse
and star and tree and man are parts of
God We have three souls-an animal
soul, human soul, d spiritual soul.
The animal soul becomes after awhile
wandering thing trying to express
Itself through mediums. 1t enters
beasts. or enters a human being, and
when You find an effeminate man il is
because a woman's soul has got into
the man. and when you find a maseu-
line woman it is because a mans soul
has taken possession of a woman's
body. If you find a woman has become
a platform speaker and likes politics
she is possessed by a dead politician
who forty years ago made the platform
quake. The soul keeps wandering on
and on. and may have fifty or innumer-
able different forms and finally Is alb
sorbed in God. 1t was God at the start
and win be God at the last
But who gives the authority for
the truth of such religion9
Some beings living in cave in Gem
trail Asia. They are invisible to the
naked eye, but they cross continents
and seas in fash. My Baptist broth
er, DR.. Haldeman says that a Theoso-
phist in New York was visited by one
of these mysterious beings from Gem
trail Asia. The gentleman knew it |
from the fact that the mysterious be-
ing left his pocket handkerchief, EN-
broidered with his name and Asiatic |
residence. The most wonderful achieve /
ment of the Theosophists is that they T
keep out of the insane asylum. They |
prove the truth of the statement that /
no religion ever announced was so alb
surd but it gained disciples. Societies
in the United States and England and
other lands have been established for
the promulgation of Theosophy. In
stead of needing the revelation of
Bible, you can have these spirits from
a cave in Central Asia to tell you
all you ought to know, and after you
leave this life you may become prima
donna, or a robin, or gazelle, or a sot,
)r a prize fig liter, or a Herod, or a
Jezebel, and so be enabled to have
treat variety of experience, rotating
through the universe now rising, now
falling, now shot out in straight line,
md now describing a parabola, and on
md on. and up and up, and down and
lown. and round and round. Don't
,ou see? Now, that Theosophic life
BOAT has been launched. 1t proposes
o take you off the rough sea of doubt
nto everlasting quietude. How do
rou like that lifeboat? My opinion is
-ou had better initiate the mariners of
ny text, and cut off the ropes of that
BOAT and let her fall off.
Another lifeboat tempting us to enter
S made up of many planks of GOOD
Works 1t is really beautiful boat
Inns giving, practical sympathies
or human suffering, righteous words,
nd righteous deeds. | must admit |
ike the looks of the prov and of the
owlocks and of the paddles and of the
IccTluR gear anu VI many NAAO aAI
linking to trust themselves on their
enches But the trouble about that
ifeboat is, it leaks. / never knew c
man yet good enough to earn t
eaven by his virtues or generosi- a
les. If there be one person here l
resent on this blessed Sabbath all
f whose thoughts have always c
cen right, all of whose actions have il
lways been right, and all of whose S
lords have always been right, let him b
tand up, or if already standing, let e
i'm lift his hand and / win know that |
e lies. Paul had it about right when r.
aid: '.By the deeds of the law shall t
o flesh living be justified" David v
ad it about right when he said: II
There is none that doeth good, no not /
me- The Old Book had it about right L
hen il said: "All have sinned and Ii
,me short of the glory of Cod Let RI
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