Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-10-28
into It and put for shore.

soul In Is or advise you to risk your soul
in 1t. ALI the splendid nnmsgate life
boats, and Margate lfeboats, and South
Shields lifeboats, and American lifeboata
were tested before being put into prac-
tical use as to their buoyancy and speed
and stowage and self righting capacity.
And whom you offer my soul q lifeboat
must first test it.
THE TuEosoPH1C LIFEDoAT.
Here is splendid new lfeboat called
Theosophy. 1t has only little while
been launched, although some Of the
planks are really several thousand years
old, and from worm eaten ship. but
they are painted over and look new.
They are really fatalism and pantheism
Of o1den time. But we must forget that
and call them theosophy. The Grace
Darling of this lifeboat was an oars
woman by the namo Of Mime. 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 1t and because we ourselves
are invited to get in.
Its theory is that everything Is God.
Horse and star and tree and man ere
parts of God. Wohave three eouls-an
animal soul, human soul, spiritual
soul. The animal SOU! becomes, after
awhile, a wandering thing a:,ing to cx-
press itself through mediull.s 1t ontors
beasts or enters human being. and
when you find an eifcmiratc man 1t is
because woman's- soul las got into the
man, and when you End masculine
woman it is because mans soul has
taken possession Of woman's body. !.
If you find a woman has become @
platform speaker aud likes politics, she
is possessed by dead politician, who
40 years ego made the platform
quake. The soul Keeps wandering on
and on, and may have so OF innumer:
able different forms, and finally is
absorbed in God. It was God at the
start and will be God at tho last. But
who gives the authority for the truth Of
sucha religions? Some beings living IN q
cave In central Asia. They arc invisible
TO the naked eye, but they cross CONT
nents and seas in flash.
My Baptist brother DR.. Haldenan says
that theosophist Ii New York was Wis
tied by one Of these mysterious beings
from central Asia. The gentleman know
it from the fact that the mysterious be-
ing left his pocket handkerchief, en-
bYoidered with his name and Asistic res
idence The most wonderful achieve
ment Of the theosophists Is that they
keep out of the insane asylum. They
prove the truth of tho statement that no
religion ever announced was so absurd
but 1t 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 q
Bible you can have these spirits from 8
cave in central Asia to tell you all you
ought to know, and afteFyou leave this
Hs ieoBBf BIZ, 81 eszcies Sot, 81 prize
fighter, or o Herod, or Jezebel. and 80
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 theosophio lifeboat has been,
launched. It proposes to take you of
the rough sea of doubt into everlasting
ouietude. Howdo you Ike the lifeboatP
NY opinion is you had better initiate
the mariners of my text and cut of the
ropes of that boat and let her fall of.
ABoAT THAT LEAKS.
Another lfeboat 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 lfeboat is it leaks
never knew man yet good enough to
earn heaven by his virtues or generosi-
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
ell of whose words have always been
right let him stand up, or if already stand
inc let him lift his hand, and will know
that he lies. Paul had 1t about right
when he said, "By the deeds of the law
shall no flesh living DO justified" David
had it about right whom he said, "There
ia none that docth good, no not one"
The old book had it about right when
it said, "All have sinDcd and come short
Of tho glory of God" Let q man get off
that little steamer called The Maid Of
the Mist, which sails up to the foot Of
Niagara falls, and then climb to the top
of tho falls on the descending floods, 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 e1-
actly right, and your words exacIiy
right, and your deeds always exactly
right, you can go up to the gate of heay-
en-, and you need not even knock for adj
mittance, but open 1t yourself and push
the angels out of your way and go up and
take one of the front seats. But you
would be so unlike any one else that has
gone up from this world that you would
be a curiosity In heaven and more fit for
heavenly museum than for o place
where the inhabitants could look at you
free Of charge.
| No, sir, admire your good works,
and that lifeboat you are thinking OF
trusting In Is handsomer than any yawl
or pinpace oSyacht or cutter that ever
sped out of o boathouJe or hoisted sail
| for race. But she leaks. Trust your