Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-10-23

thinking machine, which halts not in n
revolutions from cradle to grave, Eve,
the midnight does not stop the thinkin,
machine, for when we are in dreams W,
are thinking, although we do not thinl
as well. All of us who are accustomed
to thinking want to reach some solid
shore OF safety and satisfaction. and il
any one has good hfeboat that we NAV
honorably take l wish he would mn.
swing it from the davits and let us get
INTO 1t and put for shore.
But l give you fair notice must first
examine the lifeboat before / risk nv
soul In it or advise you to risk your soul
in it. All the splendid Rsnsgate life.
boats, and Margate lifeboats, and South
Shields lifeboats, and American lifeboats
were tested before being put into prac-
tical use as to their buoyancy and speed
and stowage and self righting capacity.
And when you offer my soul lifeboat /
must first test it.
THE THEoSOPHIC LIFEBoAT.
Here is splendid new lifeboat called
Theosophy. 1t has only little while
been launched, although some of the
planks are really several thousand years
old, and from worm eaten shin. 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 oars
woman by the name of Nine. Blavat-
sky, but the oarswoman now is Annie
Besant. So many are getting aboard
the boat 1t is worthy of examination,
both because of the safety of those who
have entered land 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, spiritual
soul. The animal soul becomes, after
awhile, a wandering thing, trying to ex-
press itself through mediums. 1t enters
beasts or enters human being, and
when you find an effeminate man it is
because woman's soul has got into the
man, and when you find a masculine
woman it is because o mans soul has
taken possession of womans body.
If you find woman has become a
platform speaker and likes politics, she
is possessed by a dead politician, who
DO years ago made the platform
quake. The soul keeps wandering on
and on, and may have so or innumer-
able different forms, anl finally is
absorbed in God. It was God at THE
start and will be God at the last. But
who gives the authority for the truth of
such a religion2 Some beings living in a
cave in central Asia. They are invisible
to the naked eye, but they cross CONT
nents and seas in fash.
My Baptist brother DR.. Haldeman says
that theosophist in New York was Wis
tied by one of these mysterious beings
from central Asia. The gentleman knew
it from the fact that the mysterious be-
ing left his pocket handkerchief, en-
broidered with his name and Asiatic res
idence. The most wonderful achieve
ment 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 80 absurd
but it gained disciples.
Societies in the United States and Eng
land and other lands have been estab-
lished for the PRONUNCIATION of theosophy.
Instead of needing the revelation of
Bible you can have these spirits from
cave in central Asia to tell you all you
ought to know, and after you leave this
life you may become prima donna, or
arobin, or agazelle, or sot, or prize
fighter, Oh Herod, on a Jezebel, and so
be enabled to have great variety Of
experience, rotating through the uni
verse, now rising, now falling, now
shot out in straight line and now de-
scribing parabola, and ON and on, and
up and up, and down and down, and
round and round. Don't you see? Now,
that theosophic lifeboat has been
launched. 1t proposes to take you of
the rough sea of doubt into everlasting
ouietude. How do you like the lifeboatS
Nv opinion is you had better initiate
the mariners of my text and cut off the
ropes of that boat and let her fall of.
A BOAT THAT LEAKS.
Another lifeboat tempting us to enter
is made up of many planks of good
works. It is really 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 lifeboat is it leaks.
| never knew a man yet good enough to
earn heaven by his virtues or generos-
ties. -.
If there be one person here present
on this blessed Sabbath all Of whose
thoughts have been always right, all OF
whose actions have always been right, and
ali of whose words have always been
light let him stand up, or if already stand
ing 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 II about right when he said' There
"a none that doeth good, no not one.
The old book had it about night when
IL said. "All have sinned and come short
Of the glory of God" Let a man get on
that little steamer called The Maid OF