The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-07-25
THOUGHTS AND OTHER
THINGS.

You csa never &c. away froya religion.
i IS sns@TsteSt. rAyssap: K nos inherited.
u has s~sen a part 90 yeur atmosphere
al some period - year yoash. 0aae IN il,
yea ear asver get oUt.
In Gay case X = pure atAvlsTa Ny
grar1<athe- sss missionary. ] have sell
c7ss attended eagrch. tsss 1rn mission
AIRY, an iInsraat. every wssS or So x
generally earles o. a ssusssy. fer the
church Bells rfag the people move by with
grower tread. there Is a bush IL The AZ
r1soSrhsre ard q sg2o2Gea sense 81 self
communion II the Hgh, ether.
was travelling al day On Sunday.
was IN the srst-ciass Pullman. there was
a tourist" ear ahead. Il beng Sunday
and the atmosphere being reiogAnt
thereof. ! though: - joseph Cooks the
CRY o. TIE hereafter-that since lie a
principle exists before acsual nsan-crea-
ton. therefore 1t may exist After gaAn-
destruction.
AS said. was specializing on this tho
DRY, when ] suddenly asked myself Have
the people in this car immortal Souls@"
And tken began 10 stady them. .or soG5S
Well. concluded thar there WAS ncshlnc
IN ina appearance Of any % them 70 pre-
clus the possibility OF souls. So ! went
into the tourist car 20 see IL the second
class passengers had sossls, and again
admitted thar there was at least little out
ward evidence TO the contrary.
The tourist car had smoking room at
ono end and a SORT Of kitchen next 10 the
smoking room. As passed through the
kitchen observed the eoiored porter cook
ing some liver and bacon and other edi-
bieS- He MAS far ard greasy his puffy
eyeiEss seemed 100 heavy 70 open. kis
sa@Yen head shone IN persplring black
ness.
! aesltates. HAS he soul to live here
after IN some heaven / queried. He is
no moro entitled 10 Immortality than q
horse. a horse lives and moves and
works. Can he work betters
"A horse loves and hates: so does he. A
horse thinks. But perhaps this cciored
porter has ambitions?
'Supposing he has. ne can never see
them fulfilled. He must be porter or
something of equal rank in the labor scale
until he in too old 10 work. and then ne
must beg or starve. Why Is ne 10 have
heaven any more than r horse?'
Because he has SOUL some prompt
ing religious inheritance tells me. Nv hero
is it, What Is there about this colored
porter ,and IS not about a horsel that
shows him 10 be possessed of "a souir''
l sat down, in the smoking room and
specala;ei on my example:
IF this darby mas no soul. and he has
none unless a horse has one, then soul is
not necessarily an attribute OF the hui
man. II some human beings have them
and some not. who can say which human
has soul?
Nay, If this coiored man has no mora
soul than a horse, and the horse has no
immortal future. then, indeed. have We
no souls and no Immortality!
While thus specializing, / observed that
my colored animal came into the smok-
ing apartment and placed table be-
tween two Of the seats. He spread a
clean. WHITE cloth thereon, and pre- pared
places for three to eat. The table was
trim and neat. but this only proved that
the human animal had more dainty
thoughts, more cultivated tastes, than tho
horse.
Then the porter went into the rear coach
and two other colored porters returned
with him. He motioned the Others to
seats and he began TO place the meal up
on the table. 1t was simple. frugal din
ner. plainly but neatly cooked and served
The TWO guests waited until my example
of a man without a soul washed his
hands and face and returned to the table
As he sat down. all three removed their
caps Uhree white men under the same
circumstances would probably have re-
tanned their head coveringp, aud quietly
bowed their heads while my example ut
tered these words; 'Oh, Lord, we three
are thankful TO thee for this repast; ours
only as the recipients of thy bounty. Let
us not forget that as IL Is food for our
mortal body, so ought we 10 use all OF