Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-10-26

of the safety OF those who have entered 81
end because we ourselves s:e invited IL
get In
Its theory IL that everything Is God.
Horse and star and tres and man are parts
of God. We have three souls-an animal
soul, human soul, spiritual soul. Ths
animal soul becomes after awhile wan
dering thing. trying to express Itself
through mediums. Il enters beasts or en-
tiers 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 masculine woman it is because
mans soul has taken possession OF WON
ans body.
II you find 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. It was God at
the start and will be God at the last. But
who gives the authority for the truth Of
such rsligioni Some beings living in q
cave in central Asia They are invisible to
the naked eye, but they cross continents
and seas in fash.
My Baptist brother, DR.. Haldeman, says
that 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 in the
United States and England and other lands
have been established for the PRONUNCIATION
of theosophy.
Instead of needing the revelation of o
Bible, you can have these spirits from O
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 q
robin, or gazelle, or sot, or priZefghter,
or Herod, or Jezebel, and so be enabled
to have great variety of experience, rotat'
ing through the universe, now rising, now
falling, now shot out in 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 see? Now
that theosophic lifeboat has been launched
1t proposes to take you off the rough sea
of doubt into everlasting quietude. How
do you like that lifeboati My opinion i:
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 US to enter Ii
made up of many planks of good works
1t is really a beautiful Notwithstanding
practical sympathies for human suffering
righteous words and righteous deeds
must admit I like the looks of the prov
and of the rowlocks, and of the paddles
and of the steering gear, and of many whC
are thinking to trust themselves on hel
benches. But the trouble about that life
boat is it leaks. / never knew a man ye
good enough to earn heaven by his virtues
or generosities. If there be one person her,
present on this blessed Sabbath all of whost
thoughts have been always right all O
whose actions have always been right, ant
all of whose words have always been right
let him stand up, or if already standing le
him lift his hand, and l will know that h,
lies.
Paul had 1t about right when he said
'By the deeds of the law shall no flesh liv
ing be justified" David had it about righ
when he said, 'sThere is none that doetl
good-no, not one." The old book had i
about right when it said, "All have sinnet
and come short of the glory Of God" Let
man get off that little steamer called Th
Maid of the Mist, which sails up to the foo
of Niagara falls, and then climb to the tol
of the falls on the descending foods, for b
can do it easier than any man ever will b
able to climb to heaven by his good works
II your thoughts have always been exactl
right, and your words exactly right, AM
your deeds always exactly right, you cal
go up to the gate of heaven, and you nee,
not even knock for admittance, but open i
yourself and push the angels out of you
way and 60 up and take one of the from
seats
But you would be so unlike any one els
that has gone up from this world that 20,
would be curiosity in heaven and NOR
fit for heavenly museum than for plac
where the inhabitants could look at yo
free of charge, No, sir, / admire your goo
works, and that lifeboat you are thinkin
of trusting in is handsomer than any yaw
or pinnace or yacht or cutter that ever spe
out of boathouse or hoisted sail for
race. But she leaks. Trust your soul i
that, and you will go the bottom. Sh
leaks So initiate the mariners of th
text, and with a cutlass strike the ropes c
the boat and let her fall off.
THE HOPE OF THE HYPoCRITE.
So
encies. The planks of this boat are CON
posed of the split planks of shipwrecki
That PROV is made out of hypocrisy fror
the life of man who professed one thin
and really was another. One oar of thi
lifeboat was the falsehood of a churc
member, and the other oar was the wicked
| ness of some minister of the gospel who's
| iniquities were not for long while foun
out. Not one plank from the oak of God
eternal truth in all that lifeboat. All th
| planks, by universal admission, are d.
| cayed and crumbling and fallen asart an
rotten and ready to sink. well, welll
you say. mo one will want to get int
| that lifeboat.
| Oh, my friend. you are mistaken. Tha
is the most popular lifeboat ever cor
structed. That is the most popular lif
boat ever |, lnched. Millions of peop]
want to get into it. They jostle each oths
/ to get the best seat in the boat. You coul
not keep them back though you stood 6
the gunwale with a club, as on our shi
| Greece in hurricane, and the steerae
passengers were determined to come up Q
deck, where they would have been washe
off, and the officers stood at the top of tt
stairs clubb ,g them back. Even by sue
violence as t 1T you could not keep peop
from jumping into the most popular lif
boat, made of church member inconsistel
cies. In times OF revival when sinners flo
into the inquiry room the most of thel
are kept from deciding Alright because the
| know so many Christians who are bad
/ The inquiry room becomes worlds IA
| for exhibitio of all the frailties of churc
members, SO that if you believe all is thel
told you you would be afraid to enter
| church lest you get your pockets picked {