Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-12-12

sary All experience Of every age and
condition must be had Character must
he perfectly moulded. One lie docs net
suffice.
Some thial; tia; he act Of dying makes
al equal. but if so, life has no meaning.
and it matters not how we pass the time
On ,ngjh Spiritual discipline after death
! is believed in by some but there is no
proof Of such thing being reached
| Why arc we born here, if the discipline is
I to be had after we die:
! These suggestions are unsatisfactory but
/ rainelrnltipn answers every question put
! t. it. successive lives on earth enable Us
! tn gain all knowledge. They bring us
| back mt all times of the worlds progress.
| We can pass through every experience enc
by one. We can develop Ill faculties in
Guiding those of patience and sympathy,
which are uf slow growth. self control
! can be reached A gradual broadening
vi ideas takes place in successive lives
/ giving basis for brotherhood. Rrincar-
nation explains why races and nations de
! cay, for the souls no longer require tn"
experience Of those nations and rtincar
! nate in others. 1t restores lis our conccp-
/ ton Of justice in the Deity.
Nearly 70 PER cent. Of the inhabitants
Of the world believe in rciRcnrnatou. II
was taught in Christianity mp 70 tie year
! $50 A. d.. when il was cEpungrd hy
some ignorant monks Jesus Christ
| refers 10 il in The Bible He said John
I the Baptist was Elias. who bad boon dead
| hundreds, of years. Paul. John, solomon
also speaks of il in the Bible. 1t was
| taught hy OrigCn. Syncsius and other
| Christian fathers The Rev Edward
| Becchcr in Ills book the " Conflict Of the
! Ages, says hat christianity il illug-
| zeal wthou; rnincarnaIion. II j. rapidly
| being accepted by the more enlightened
minister, q today for without il man is
suullcss being IN his own conception,
, and h. clnnnt understand r,li gion.
Some ask. Why do We not r,co,i2tt
our past lives" The brains with which
wp try "a rrncm.ar- belong to this body,
which aid not exist in u previous life.
/ Some Ito rrcolcct their past liyc--thcsc
! who have acquired the consciousness Of
til, soa,. which lived before
I flcrciity does not contradict rcincarna-
ton for we DO not love because. we are
related. but are related because VIC loved
in q previous life. Members Of tbs same
family differ greatly in character, but if
| hcredity be the law they should b. SINH
lar There was only one Mozart hayden
Beethoven. Shakespeare in the family. but
by hercdity the brothers ana sisters should
have been similar To them.
BE- rcincarnatioD we reap exactly what
we sow, and a man becomes responsible
for all his actions. 1t makes the fact Of
immortality a real belief, graspcd by the
mind The soul. which is the man him
self. has experienced during these count
less livc,. Of the past. and today represents
the storage of this vast experience. If the
soul began To exist with the body the
man is without soal. for the experience
If this life is in the mind. How can inn
mortality have "a beginning. Although
reincarnation seems strange at first hear
ing, ii SHOULD he looked into, for il answers
20 many Of the unsolvabie problems If life
and is the foundation of all evolution and
has been accepted by every religion.
Mr. Harding lectures again tonight, 8
p. NJ, at the Golden Cross Hall, on the
Evolution OF the Mind The meetings
are public.