The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-02

examine the lSfeboat before risk my
i soul in it or advise You 10 risk your
soul in it All the splendid Ramsgate
lifeboats and Margate lifeboats and
South Shields lifebpats and American
/ lifeEoats were tested, before being put
| into practical use, as to their buoyaney
| end speed. and stowage and self
righting capacity. And when you
| offer my soul a lifeboat ! must FIRST
test it.
Here is splendid new lifeboat
| called Theosophy. 1t has only u little
while been launched, although some of
/ the planks are really several thousan nd
| years old, and from worm eaten
4 ship, but they are painted over and
look new. They are really Fatalism
and Pantheism of olTen time. But
| we must forget that and call them
| heosophy. The Grace Darling of
| this lifeboat was an oars by the
name of Madame Blavatsky, but the
! oarswoman now is Annie Besant So
many are getting board the boat, it is
worthy Cf examination, both because
| of the safety of those who have en-
| tered it and because we ourselves are
/ invited to get in. is theory is that
everything is God. Horse and star and
| tree and man are parts of God. We
have three souls: An animal soul. a
| human soul, spiritual soul. The
amin al soul becomes. after a while,sa
| wandering thing, trying to express it.
| self through mediums. 1t enters beasts,
| or enters a human being, and when you
| dnd an effeminate man it is because q
woman's soul has got into the
man, and when you find a masculine
woman, it is because a mans soul has
taken possession of woman's DO ty.
| If you find woman has become a
platform speaker and likes politics,
she is possessed by a dead politician,
who forty years ago made the plat
form quake. The soul keeps wander
ing on and on. and may have fifty or
lnnumerable different forms and finally
is absorbed in God. Il was God at the
start and will be God at the last But
who gives the authority for the truth
of such religion? Some beings living
In cave in Central Asia. They are
invisible t. the naked eye, out they
cross continents and seas in Il flash.
My Baptist brother, DIR. Haldr man. .says
that u Theosophisr in New York was
visited by one of these mysterious
beings from Central Asia. The gen
tleman knew it from the fact that the
mysterious being left his pockct-hand-
kerchief, embroidered w tn his name
and Asiatic residence. The most
wonderful achievement of the Theoso-
pnists is that they keep out of the in
sane asylum. They prove the truth of
the statement that no religion ever
annoUn ced was SO absurd but it gained
disciples. Societies in the United
States and England and other lands
.have been esta bI.shed for the promul-
CATION of Thcsosophv. Instead of heed
ing the revelation of 'bible, you can
have these spirits from a cave in Cen
tral Asia to tell you all you ought to
know, and after you leave this life you
may becomea prlma donna or a robin
or'S Eazelle, or sot or a prize fighter
or q Herod or a JeZebel, and SO be en-
abled to have great variety of expert
ence, rotating through the universe,
now rising, now falling, now shot
out IN a straight line, and now de-
scribing a p-Tabola, ana on and on,
and up and up, and down and down,
and round and round. Don't you see?
Now, that Theoso phic lifeb at has been
launched. Ii proposes to take you all
off the rough sea of doubt into ever
lasting quietude. How do you like
that lifeboat? My opinion i, you had
better initiate the mariners of my text
Ccd cut Off the ropes of that boat and
let her fall off.
Another lifeboat tempting us to
good works. 1t is really a beautiful
boat-alms giving, practical sympa-
thies for human suffering, righteous
words and righteous deeds. | must
admit like the looks of the PROV and
of the row-locks and OF the paddles
and of the steering gear and of manv
who are thinking to trhst themselves
on her benches. But the trouble
about that lifeboat is, it leaks. I
never knew man good enough to
earn heaven by his virtues or gener-
osities. If there be one person here
present on this blessed Sabbath all OF
whose thoughts have been always
right, all of whose actions have al
ways been right, and all of whose
words have always been right, let
him stand up, or if already standing,
let him lift his hand, and I will know
that he lies. Paul had it about right
when he said: by the deeds
of tha law shall no flesh living
be justified" David had it about
rightw he said; There is none
old book had It about right when it
\said: "An have sinned and come
short of The glory of God" Let
i nan get off that little steamer
called %rFhe Maid of the Mist which
sails upAto the foot of Niagara falls,
and then Nciimb to the top of tne falls
Oh the desS1nding floods, for he can do
it easier than any man will ever be
able TO climb to heaven by his good
works. If yoAr thoughts have always
been exactly Night, and your words
exactly right AID youc deeds always
cxs ctlv right, 1ou can go up to the
gate of heaven. Hand you need not even
knock for uHttance, but open it
Yourself. and p,,Ah the angels out of
vo1r way. and 90 Sup and take one of
the front seats. Nut you would be so
unlike anyone else Nthat has gone up
from this world thaNt you would be IL
curiosity in heaven land more fit for
heaveDiv norso,,D 4than for place