The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-19
BODIES IN FUTURE LIFE.
RET MINOR sATA0B OF BosToN mas
NO DoUBr TWILL BE SO.


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The ~Clereyuau, who IL 60 Assist Dr. Coil-
scr. Believes that Souls oTth Departed
Occupy Epnce nr Realty Ne DO the
Living = Eyes OF the Latter Not SUM
cienuy Adapted 20 Perceive Them.
BosroS, April l3.-The Rev. Minot J. Savage
who next fall will begin his services ~ assistant
to tho Rev. Dr. Cullyer In New York city. gave
uttcrance to some remarkably broad ideas IL
hs Easter sermon. one OF these was that souls
after death occupy space ms really as do bodies
In the present life. lie furthermore said that
he believed tho souls OF those we coll dead
"poasc,s bodies not as real as these, but un-
speaknbly more real"
These statements have during the past week
caused persons with spiritualistIc tendencies,
aud Boston has no. n few. to look upon the
Unity pastor AS u stronger believer than over in
their ideas. Mr.. SayaRe's sermons are printed
each week by the Unitarian publishing house,
and are given to the public about a week after
they are preached. Last weeks camo from the
press on Saturday and contains Mr.. savage'a
remarks lust as he delivered them, which. Of
course. gives to the utLorances q moro official
character.
During tho period that Mr.. Savage has been
pastor at the Church of the Unity hs apparent
ly has exomplitied a statemen which he made
uui ihb NV t'nNb NihhNN - oNSthSlVi VI th0
utLerance referred to was when he preached the
sermon at the installation of Mrs. Helen Wan
Anderson at the Church OF the Higher Lire, ON
st. BOtolph street. He was speaking OF creedA,
and what he said was Mis-:
lido not promise not IN hayo an onal
clause to INV creed to- murrow. II during the
day my knowledge has been added to. I SEQ no
reason for not making use of such knowledge"
MIR. Savage has on more than ono ocoasion
49, ass ...a Va. tlnaa NL,N F-.. ,T.-l AI-
among the leaders Of nd, anced thinkers and
liberal teachers. some Of these utterances have
been of such a nature &c To cause Spiritualists
to claim HIM as n believer In their philosophy.
II not an advocate Of II.
Mir. Savage will have but about six more die.
courses as the regular pastor OF the Boston
church. Whether ho wished to give utloranGe
sound In ns Easter sermon, he Of course, knows
best. He did. at all events, express himeelt IN
terms that were uhnistakable. The subjects
ginning with the resurrection, he took up the
sunrequent periods, touching upon the ltefOrnla-
ton, and 30 ON to the present period. As a close
to his remarks he expressed himself in these
words, as reprinted from the Unity Pulpit:
which ] alone am responsible. such as appeal "a
me rs being rational and in accord with al the
II do not believe that death came into the
word as the result q any invasion Of evil from
or human sin. do no; believe that II rs ah1
token OF Gods anger. lido not belitv We it is an
alteTthOuBnt, something that UOu aid not OrlRs
inally intend, believe rather thar it is u part
OF the divine. the universal order. that 1t il az
natural rs being born, and that 1t is as much an
Indication of the love of God AS il being born.
Death is simply a natural phase of life. For,
though | cannot stop to give my reasons, l Dl
lieve there are reasons, adequate reasons, TO!
believing that what we call death is not the end
Of individual existence. believe We pass
WEI Where do we goa We do not go into any
underworld. We do not ascend into any heaven
just above the dome OF blue: for we know TINS
This dome OF blue is only AN optical illusion. u
was once believed to be Il solid dome which
might DO a htting foundation for q celestial
court.
DO we 60 out as disembo1led thoughts|
That | cannot belieye. A dtsem bodied Thoughts
is something to me utterly uncomfortable.
81 believe that those who have passed through
the experience called death live in space and
occupy space as much AS | do. Arc they then
materialt res, III one sense they are.
" nelieve that the souls Of those that we calI
which Paul used, are clothed upon.
u belieye that they possess bodies not as READ
With an intensity Of lie, q Which at present w
are perhaps utterly unable to conceive. Is there
any thing unsCieHtlfc about iI NO. There q
no oleuLitic knowledge able to discredlta BELIEF
like this: 1t is perfectly rational.
the mishtiest forces Of what we call tho material
universe are both invisible and Intangible. We
know that 1t is the very smallest, finest part Of
the real world that we can see with our present.
eyes. We know that IT Is only the smallesh
tiniest lart of the Infinite vibrations of the untI
II we had ears more Acute, even Mr.. Huxley
tells us, the silences Of the opening flowers In the
garden would seem to US as loud as o thunder
storm. 1t is not that there are no vibrations,
only that our ears are not adapted TO take them
up.
of sight, there Is an indnity OF them throughout
the universe. only our eyes at present are not
adapted to being affected by them, That is all
We are too commonly the FOOLS OF our eyes and
ears.
I'VE assume that We can see and hear and
feel everything that really Is; while every poor
est scientific man on earth Will tell you tnao
there may be an inhnity of life In every direo>
tion with which our present senses do not bring
US into any conscious contract.
Il believe, then, as the result of our thinking
that what may be called n psychicsl body is Do
process Of death we are released from this OUT,
ward shell very much as the butterfly is released
from its chrysalis. There has been going ON
the whole length of life OF the COCOON
the organization Of another. and to us invisible,
form within. By and by II breaks open, and the
life comes forth and enters upon another stage
OF it's career. 1t Is transformed, lifted, goes on
TO something inner and higher. | use this only
rs n crude illustration.
~ believe something akin to this 10 going on
within us, and that death means the Oroaks
ing open OF the chrysslis and the escaping OUT
into this larger life, and that We enter on tha0
life-and here is the tremendous moral power OF
belief like this Just the kind OF men and
women that we have made ourselves by our
thoughts. our emotions. our actions here. only
that there, rs hero. Is infinite opportunity
through suffering, II need be, through what.