Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1894-05-18
COL. BELLS LECTURE.
II A Man Die, Shall He Live Aga

favOraOly knOWn attorney Oi odiis-
bury delivered in the operahouse here,
last Friday night. to large and ap-
preciative audience a lecture on the
all interesting subject, "If man die,
shall he live again.
The ladies OF Keytesville had kind
ly consented to assist in the enter
tainment by furnishing most excel
lent instrumental and vocal music
for the occasion
The Col. was introduced in a most
felicitous manner by our eminent
and honoredfellow-c citizen, ex-senator
Andrew Mackay who, in a few well
chosen and appropriate remarks, in
trodaced the lecturer and the great
theme he had chosen.
Col. Bell fret stated that
he had been for u long time in the
harness of the active profession OF
the law, and that as he was now
growing old and no longer able to
travel the circuit, his friends had
suggested to him the propriety and
wisdom OF preparing q lecture to be
delivered especially within the bounds
OF the circuit. In looking around for
subject he had become impressed
with tie greatness OF the subject OF
immortality. There were those who
never looked to the bible for their
ideas OF the certainty OF a future
estate. Nature, he thought, furnished
a complete answer to the great
question asked by the patriarch OF
old, "If a man, die shall he live
again?" This he thought was the great
question for men to consider, and he
would attempt to answer it from the
light OF nature alone,
The speaker followed the only line
of reasoning possibly to one reason
iu,S from the light. Of nature alone
thai Of analogy =
He began .sy~Ssking the great
question that has suggested itself to
every inquiring mind. "The world
had beginning and must have an
ending. How? By chance or by the
act OF q personal God?"
1t is unreasonable to suppose that
the earth with all it's mighty evil
dences Of design, all it's mighty pos
sibilities for supplying an intelligent,
living being with delight and susten-
ance was put here by chance. It's,
also. governed in all it's motions by
laws that could not be the result OF
chance. Those laws have not varied
in thousands OF years. They not
only govern our world, but all the
plants. They are so exact and un-
varying that man has been enabled
by mathematical calculation to dis
cover them, and by their discovery
to assert that other worlds have ex-
isted at certain pointsin space where
none are now found.
Again 1t is unreasonable to sup
pose that blind chance could create
n being like man. A being with his
wonderful mechanism and adaptation
to his surroundings, in all his parts;
a being with his wonderful powers OF
mind; a being manifestipg in the
highest all the affections, love and
hate, Joy and sorrow, all the various
emotions OF which the human soul is
capable. 1t is impossibls TO believe
that blind chance created sbef q be-
ing. That the worli and all ff Con-
tains was the product OF intelligent
thought acting toward q logical de-
sign. 10 manifest.
Everything created manifested the
design OF it's creator. The mind of
the creator must be stamped on the
creation. We can only argue what
God is, and what he intends from
the visibls manifestations OF himself.
The mind OF God, like that OF man, is
bound to be manifested by it's ere.
ations. The mind Of Shakespeare was
manifested in his writings-the mind
OF great inventors in the creations
OF their genius.
The destiny OF q created thing is
marked upon it's organism. All the
signs indicate that the lower order
OF animals was created for this
world alone.
The lower order OF animals are
crested with q higher physical de-
velopment than man. They are