Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-30
DOCTRINE OF REINCARNATroN
views Held by Gen. Coxey and Mar
shall Browne,

| DOCTRINE OF REINCARNATION.
| sAews Held by Gen. Coxey and Mar
shall Browne.
MARSHAL Browne OF the Coxey armv 70
| almost as full OF the question of reincarna.
| ioh as he Is of the legal tender money
question. He brings the doctrine into his
conversation at all times. In Mr. Coxey's
mind the issue Of non-interest bearing
oonos rather overshadows the question OF
whose soul he is carrying around He sci.
dom mentions the subject. and The Stars
representative,who has been travelling with
the Coxey men. was. therefore, a little sur
prised to note the earnestness with which
he advocated the doctrine when he asked
him II he really believed in reincarnation.
Coxey ON Reincarnation.
Il do most sincerely" said Mr. Coxey.
'Of late years 1 have not been a strict at
tendant at churches although having a
nlsn respect for religion. / felt within a
craving and longing on the subject Of re-
ligion which the churches seemed entirely
unable to satisfy. There were many unde-
fined beliefs in my mind which 1 was un-
able to concentrate into any concrete form,
and when Carl Browne explained to me his
theories OF reincarnation, knew in a flash
that 1t was what I had been reaching for
l felt at once that in me was a reincarna-
ton OF souls that had lived before and that
l possessed characteristics of those souls
My theory on the subject, 1t seems to me,
ID simple enough. / believe that souls like
every other portion of the body. are i'm
mortal The physical elements of the body
change their form through decay, but are
2ot lost, and are used again and still again
In other kinds of life. The same principle
applies, believe, to what We term souls.
Men Of today have in them the portions Of
the souls OF thousands of men who have
gone before. Take as a crude Illustrate
large mass of molten metals of different
there are different kinds of metal there. Let
that be the worlds soul mass. Into it pass
the souls Of all who die. Out Of 1t come the
souls of those who are born.
Some souls may be too high or too low
to combine easily in that mass, and they
may pass out nearly intact. A preponder-
ance of good may be in one soul, a prepon-
derance Of bad in another. while still a
third may be almost evenly balanced, and
that Is the case with the average man.
Some draw one element and some another
but with the growth which l believe souls
to be capable Of the quality of that souls
mass changes. The pouring back of a mill
lion souls which have become a little bet
ter than when they went out raises the en-
tire mass, and when a certain height has
been reached the longed-for millennium will
have come and we will see the veritable
heaven on earth.
Something About Himself.
nave stated that L peneve myself to
possess a portion of the soul Of Christ.
believe that millions of people todav nos
SAC. a oortion of that soul Tn ra.ar, .,
80. - W
my o"n S.oA'' iooh v" Christ as the
greatest reformer VINO ever lived, and when
I say possess a portion Of his soul mean
that I have in me cha "a cterlstics of q s,,,
10, k,na ~. o,so .,a,oa e.. -
- 60, $50 - no. was
relneaInauon OF Anorew Jackson, and
mean oy thSt 20 say tnat 'he elements or
nrmneSs ana determination which marked
tne souI OF Ahorew Jackson are also pres
ent IN my soul. IN my soul there may or
may not De present portions OF the actual
souls that were Win Chrlst ana Andrew
Jackson, Dut mean 10 say tnat portions OF
the same KINDS OF soul are within me-.
Cari browne, VINO, as mas peen SAID, Is re-
sponsioie lor tne comnonweai doctrines or
renglon goes deeper INTO the subject He
talks win every appearance or thorough
sincerity.
browne and His Belief.
IT had never thought much or read much -,
.aid c,oxav.e narsboI con tho srhiaot =, :.
,,...,.,, ,..r - ,,s
AieAi"a'ioh ai'hoash my lucas Oh Goa ana
religion mad always a tendency in that d.
rection. For q year before my wife died 1
was In constant attendance at her bedside
T uss IN night GA A., "a f,. -, -,
W 'e. gu u"y, Gnu iei' anu knew
that nao attriputes OF pauence and kind
Iness ABOVE tne average. just before death