Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-23
ing capacity. And when you offer my
soul llieboat

/ MUST FIRST TEST IT.
Here Is splendid new liieooat called
Theosophy. 1t has only little while
been launched, although some OF the
planks are really several thousand
years old, and from q worm-eaten ship,
out they are painted over and look new.
They are really Fatalism and Pantheism
OF Olien time. But we must forget
that and call them Theosophy. The
Grace Darling OF this lifeboat was an
oarsHoman by the name OF Madame
Blavatsky, but the OarsWoman now Is
Annie Besant. So many are getting
aboard the boat, IL is worthy OF exam
inatiOn, both because OF the safety o!
those who have entered IL and because
We ourselves are invited to get in. It's
theory is that everything is God. Horse
and star and tres and man are parts OF
God. We have three souls: An animal
soul, a human soul, spiritual soul
The animal soul becomes, after while,
a wandering thing, trying to express it.
self through mediums. 1t enters beasts,
or enters a human being, and when
you dad an effemlnate man, it's be-
cause wOman's soul has got into the
man. and when you find q masculine
woman, il is because mans soul has
taken possession OF wOman's body. II
you find a woman has become a platform
speaker and likes politics, she Is pos
sessed by dead politician, who forty
years ago made the platform quake.
The soul keeps wandering on and on,
and may have fifty or more innumer-
able different forms and finally is alb
sorbed in God. 1t was God at the start
and will be God at the last But who
gives the authority for the truth OF
such a religion? Some beings living in
a cave 10 Central Asia. They are In
visible to the naked eye, but they cross
continents and seas In fash. Ny Bap-
list brother DR.. Haldeman says that
Theosophlst Ia New York was visited
by one OF these mysterious beings from
Central Asia. The gentleman knew 1t
From the fact that the mysterious being
left his pocket handkerchief, embreid-
cred with his name and Asiatic resi-
dence. 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 so absurd but it gained
disciples. Societies In the United
States and England aud other lands
have been established for the Dromul-
CATION OF Theosophy. Instead OF need
ing the revelation Of a Bible, you can
nave these spirits from a cave in Cen
tral Asia TO tell YOU all you ought TO
know, and after you leave this life you
NAV become 4 prima dOnaa or a robin
or a Eazelle or a sot or fighter
or q HerOd or q JeZebel, and so be en-
abled to have great variety or exper-
fence, rotating through the universe,
now rising, now falling, now shot out
In straight line, and now describing
parabOla, aud on aud on, and up and
up, aud down and down, and round and
round Don't you see? Now, that
Theosophic lilebOat has been launched.
Ii proposes to take you off the rough
sea Of doubt into everlasting quletude.
How do you like that lifeboat? My
opinion is you had better initiate the
mariners OF my text, and cut OF the
ropes OF that boat and let her tall OH.
Another lifebOat tempting US TO enter
is made up OF many planks OF Good
Works. 1t is really beautiful boat
aims giving, practical sympathies for
human suffering, righteous words and
righteous deeds. l must admit Ike
the looks Of the prov and OF the row
locks and OF the paddles and OF the
steering gear aud OF many who are
thinking 10 trust themselves on her
benches. But the trouble about that
lifebOat is II leaks. l never knew a
man yet good enough to earn heaven
by his virtues or geHerositieS. II 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, aud all OF whose words
have always been right, let him stand
up, or II already standing, let him lift
his hand, aud 1 will know that he lies.
Paul had 10 about right when he said:
''By the deeds Of the law shall no nesh
living be- justified" David had 1t about
right when he said: There Is none that
doeth good, no not one" The Old Book
had about rig ht when IL said: "All have
sinned and come short Of the glory OF
God" Let q man get of that little
steamer called "The Maid Of the Mist,
which sails up 20 the foot Of Niagara
Falls, and then climb 30 the top Of the
Falls on the descending floods, for he
can do IL easier than any man ever will
be able TO climb 10 heaven by his good
works. II your thoughts have always
been exactly right. and your words ex-
actly right and your deeds always ex-
sctly right, you can go up TO the Gate
of Heaven, and you need not even knock
for admittance, but open ii yourself,
and, push the angels out OF your way,
and 20 up and take one OF the front seats.
But YOU would be so unlike anyone else
that has gone up from this world that
YOU would be a curiosity In heaven, and
more ht for a heavenly museum than
for a place where the inhabitants could
look at YOU free OF charge. No, sir, l
admire your good works, and that lite-
boat you are thinking Of trusting In Is
handsOmer than any yawl or Dinnace or
Yacht or cutter that ever sped out OF a
boat house or hOiSted sail for race.
But she leaks. Trust your soul In that
and YOU will 90 TO the bottom. She
leaks. So 1 initiate the mariners OF the
text, and with a cutlass strike the ropes
Of the boat and
LET HER FALL OFF.
But while in my text we stand watch
ing the marines, with their cutlasses,
preparing to sever the lines Of the life
boat and let her fall of, notice the poor
equipment. Only one liisboat. Two
b ndred and seventy-SiX passengers, as
Paul counted them, and only one lie
boat. NV text uses the singular and
NOT the plural. "Cut off the ropes OF
the boat do not suppose il would