The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-07

to De one who simply because Of greater
insight INTO religious things Us set aside
for religious duties. The development OF
the burden-imposings rabbits among the
Hebrews from the Simple functions OF
Aaron ana the progress of the Brahmans
Of India, from household priests OF princes
this
The writer observes also that IN the
aged person Of good health there Is a
gradual decay OF the bodily powers and q
slow weakening OF the brain, but he has
yet TO hear of or meet one Of pure life
whose faith In hereafter aud his essential
share In IL declined as the moment of dis
solution approached. Instead u has
seemed as II, concurrently with the fall
ure Of all animal power comes a revivlng
life TO that within, which is not sub
Ject to the limitations OF either body or
mind. This universal instinct according to
the analogies Of nature means something
to US undoubtedly; the Web-foot of a wa
ter fowl found far inland shows US that
IT can swim; the winged muscles of o
bird tell us that Il will fly when mature
enough They will follow their natural
bent not by any process Of reasoning but
by instinct. AS far as we can understand,
animals make merely muscular protest
against death, but we human creatures are
justified in screaming with our expiring
breath an anathema against our Creator II
the instinct that makes us long for a
place, where unhampered by the weak
ness Of body or the frailities of mind, the
yearning Tor accomplishment measuring
up TO our powers, may have fun course, Is
merely tantallsing delusion and a miasm
OF the mind.
Tho writer further observes as no looks
out over the toilin9 millions OF humanity
that tho animal impulses prompt us TO
acquire wealth and seek comfort. and our
minds show us how to exert ourselves most
eifectively, toward those ends. With
bodies and minds only, this world would
become a vast hog-trough where the in
variable rule Of the scrambling mass
would be Get all you can and keep all
you get" III we are made up only OF per-
ishable elements struggling for individual
existence how are we then TO explain sat
isfactory. the growing tendency of the
race particularly In Christian countries,
70 bear one another's burdens This
world Is thickly dotted with institutions
for the betterment Of the sick and the de-
formed and the bereaVed, and those who
do not count their lives dear II they can
but assuase the grief or smooth the way
Of others. may be numbered by the tens
OF thousands. This phenomenon cannot
be understood except by pre-3upposng our
oneness In spirit with One higher than
US who seeth the deeds done in secret and
rewardeth them that walk uprighty.
The writer concludes that we cannot as
sociate the Divine nature, but only Divine
handiwork, with the things that are de-
caying and perishable. The universal
sense OF "A prolonged existence hereafter
In a form that Is imDerishable is trace
OF the Divine nature within us. The
growing confidence of the dying as their
bodily powers wane and their faith rises
nAP1A lDA ~ ltib vanishing luluE6 OF sense
is a trace Of the Divine The tendency Of
some members Of the human race from
all time to the present to spend their en-
ergies for the good of others IS a feeble
apprehension Of the wider purposes OF
God and further trace OF the Divine And
these traces, superior to body and mind
and finally Independent Of both. we call
soul, or spirit.
one related thought IN concluding this
brief almost superficial, consideration Of
a very vast subject. So long as these
three, body, mind and spirit are united
they act and react upon each other The
gross, british life of self-gratificatiOn
dims the evidences of the Divine within:
the life devoted to mere mentality does
the same. The life of rounded perfection
and Of power Is the one that subordnates
body and mind to the lofty, altrustic pur-
poses that emanate from the spirit within.
With Cicero we opened with him we also
close. THE man who knows himself will
find within himself trace of the Divine
and he Will be careful to avoid those feel
ings and actions that would injure this
great gift.
n RTar