Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-03-03


African HOttentot orders his bow and
arrows to be buried with him, that he
may fight in the land of the spirits.
The red man of the primeval woods of
America was found listening TO the
souls OF his beloved ones in the muir
murS Of the breeze, and placing food in
the grave Of the fallen warriors, for
the benefit of their departed souls.
Can the universal voice of all nations
and at all times, with its most solemn
warning, be a fraud? Could such a gi-
gantc fraud be reconciled with the
wisdom OF the Author of nature?
THE VOICE OF HUMAN REASON.
Did you ever attempt to gauge the
comprehensive power OF your intellect?
Did you ever attempt TO size up the eX-
tensive scope Of your mental vision,
and its far-reaching grasp on the pres
ent, the past and the future? The hui
man intellect rules matter. It makes
the light of the sun subservient to its
power to gain the ideas of shape and
form, and the knowledge of the physi-
cal and chemical properties of the
material world 1t makes the vibrat-
ing air subseryient to its action in
forming ideas of sound, harmony and
music. 1t forces the depths of the
earth to unfold its hidden wealth in
gold, silver and diamonds. and TO
open its immense stores of coal, gas
and oil 1t measures the distances Of
the planets, computes the diameter of
the earth, of the moon, of the sun, and
other celestial bodies; it sizes up and
weighs their bulk, surveys the i'm
mense plain of their orbit. and chains
the millions of miles of their daily run:
ii catches the light at its passage. in
its lightning rapidity. and sets the ex-
act figures of its speed to a second. Ny
friends, should deviation bring the
huge wanderers in the incommensur-
able space to a clash and cause the
destruction of the planetary system.
the human intellect soaring above the
catastrophe would be the impossible
witness of the cataclysm, would study
its cause, measure the extent of the
chaos and compute its consequences.
Can a substance endowed with such a
power of transcendng matter be only
a vapor that appears for a little while
to vanish away, when matter itself
still continues to exist through its
many transformations?
Again, the human intellect con-
ceiyes thoughts that will last forever.
Truth can never cease to be truth.
Two and two are four will be true
through all times and through all eteT-
nifty The heavens and the earth may
pass, but it will always be true that
two and two are four So it is with
the first principles of sciences. Now.
my friends, YOU know that an effect
cannot be superior to its cause. and that
a fruit cannot be of a richer nature
than that of the tree which produced il.
You will never look for an orange
growing on a thistle. Therefore. the
human soul, being capable of conceiy-
ing ideas that will have a permanent
eternity in the intellectual world. must
necessarily be itself rooted on immor-
tally.
Look back to the past, now, and
see the power of your mental vision in
that old, dusty region. Thence it
forces back the various scenes of your
early life, the cottage in which YOU
were born. the garden where YOU
played so often, the trees which showed
your childish movements. the tower of
the church where your mother was
used to take you on SUNDAYS. and the
gay faces of the companions of your
childhood. 1t penetrates into the cof-
fin and summons forth from the dust
the familiar features of those who were
dear to you, and makes them stand
alive again before your gaze: you see
their eyes sparkling with life and their
lips smiling TO You as heretofore: you
hear the well known sound of their
voice. and YOU converse with them.
But substance that has the power 10
force death to obey its summons and
to restore its prey. must be itself be-
yond the reach of death Therefore.
the human soul is immortal
Turn again. now. and face the fu-
ture. See The human intellect piercing
the veil of the here-to-come with the
lights of its conclusions and foretelling
the fall of nations; see the human mind
plunging into the celestial immensely
and writing upon the broad space of the
face the hour, minute and second Of the
time of the eclipse which will call the
attention of the world i'm one. two and
ten years; see the human soul soaring
above the spaces beyond the spheres
beyond the world, and penetrating into
the infinite domain of Gods eternity.
and tell me if a substance gifted with
such faculties is only a sinking fume.
Now comes the sound of the
VOICE OF HUMAN FREE WILL
The human will stands proof against
all the efforts of material force. The
human viii may be enticed. persuaded
or gained, but conquered against its
own determination, never, You can
subdue my body you can lay my head
in the dust, YOU can strange my throat.
you can nail my body to the rack of
torture, but always is my soul free 20
say: 81 viii notw The martyrs bruised
by instruments of torture could not
be pulled down from the glorious
throne of their free will; and the last
stroke which finished their torments
was not the eXecutiOners triumph. but
the triumph of the free will of the
Christian soul taking its flight TO heav-
en-. When a substance can stand tri-
umphant above all the exhausted cru
SUITS AND OVERCOAT
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