Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-23

IL 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, a spiritual soul. The
animal soul becomes after awhile wan
dering thing, trying to express ITSELF
through mediums It enters beasts or en-
tiers a human being, and when you find an
effeminate man it is because woman's
soul has got into the man, and when you
find masculine woman IL IL because a
mans soul has taken possession OF WON
ans body
II you lind a woman has become plat
form speaker aud likes politics, she is pos
sessed by dead politician, who ~ years
ago made the platform quake. The soul
keeps wandering ON and on, and may have
50 or innumerable different forms, and
finally is absorbed 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 religionf Some beings living in
cave in central Asia They are invisible to
the naked eye, but they cross continents
and seas In a fash.
My Baptist brother, DIR. HaldemRn, 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 1t gained disciples. Societies In the
United States and England and other lands
have been established FOR the promulgation
OF theosophy
Instead OF needing the revelation Of a
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 n prirna donna, or
robin, or guzelle or sot, or u priZehghter,
or Herod, or q Jezebel, and so BE- enabled
TO have great variety VI experience, rotat-
ing through the universe, now rising, now
falling, now shot out in a straight line
and now describing parabola, and on and
on, and up and up. ans down and down. and
round and round. Dou't you see! Now,
that theosophic lifeboBt has been launched
II proposes to take you Off the rough sea
OF doubt into everlasting quletude. How
do you like that lifeboati My opinion Is
you had better initiate the mariners OF my
text and cut of the ropes Of that boat and
let her fail of
TUE hOkALIST'S HOPE.
Another liieboat tempting US to enter is
mnde up Of many planks Of good works
IL il really beautiful at-almsgiying
practical sympathies for human suffering,
righteous words aud 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 10 trust themselves on her
baurbag nut the trft1l. nh Tint Iff,..
boat is it leaks. never knew man yet
good enough 70 earn heaven by his virtues
or geuero5lties. 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, and
all Of whose words have always been right
let him stand up, or II already standing 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 liv.
ing be justified David had It about right
when he said There is none that doeth
good-no, not one" The old book had it
about right when ii said, IAN have snned
and come short Of the glory OF God" Let
man get of that little steamer called The
Maid Of the Mist, which sails up to the foot
| OF Niagara falls, and then climb to the top
eau do it easier than any man ever will be
able to climb to heaven by hts good works.
| II your thoughts have always been exactly
right and your words exactly right, and
| your deeds always exactly right, you can
| go up to the gate OF heaven, and you need
not even knock for sdmittance, but open it
| yourself and push the angels out OF your
way and go up and take one OF the front
seats.
But you would be 80 unlike any Que else
that has gone up from this world that you
would be a curiosity In heaven and more
At for a heavenly museum than for a place
whore the inhabitants could look at you
free OF charge No, sir, admire your good
works, and that lifebont you are thinking
OF trusting in In handsomer than any yawl
or pinnece or yacht or cutter that ever sped
out OF a boathouse or hosted sail for
race. But she leaks, Trust your soul in
that, and you will 80 the bottom She
lenks. So ! initiate the mariners OF the
text, and with a cutlass strike the ropes OF
the boat and let her fall off.
THE HOPE OF THE HYPocRIrE
Another lifeboat is Christian Inconslst
encies. The planks OF this boat are com
posed Of the split planks OF shipwrecks.
| That Prov Is made out OF hypocrisy from
the life OF n man who PROPOSED one thing
and really was another. One oar OF this
lifeboat was the falschood OF q church
member, and the other oSr was the wicked
ness of some minister of the gospel whose
iniquities were not for long while found
out. Not one plank from the oak OF Godis
eternal truth in all that lifeboat All the
planks, by universal admission, are de,
cayed and crumbling and fallen apart and
rotten aud ready to sink "Weil, wellpi
YOU say. mo one will want to get into
that liieboat.n
Oh, my friend, you are mistaken. That
Is the most popular lifeboat ever con.
structed. That ia the most popular life.
boat ever launched Millions of people
want 10 get into it, They jcstle each other
to get the best seat ia tue boat You could
not keep them back though you stood az
the gunwales with club, as on our shin
Greece in hurricane, and the storage
passengers were determined to come up on
deck, where they would have been washed
on, aud the officers stood at the top Of the
stairs clubbing them back Even by such
violence rs that you could not keep people
from jumping into the most popular life.
boat, made OF church member inconsisten,
cieS In times OF revival when sinners fiock
into the inquiry room the most OF them
are kept from deciding Alright because they
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