Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-04-16
REINCARNATIOS.

Strange to say, in this age of
boosted turning away from the truth
as revealed in Christ Jesus thousands
go TO the mummined religions of the far
East and profess to have found in their
winding folds covered with the dust of
| ages, the true solution of the questions
of existence temporal and eternal. one
of the ideas thus brought out of the dark
and placed upon the pedestal of alleged
modern Investigation Is the doctrine OF
| reinearnatlon. But how many OF the
modern adherents of that conception
/ realize what 1t means! The following
| paragraphs from The Missionary Re-
view, quoted In Literary Digest, are
worth thoughtful perusal. After a
description of the Indian falSirs and
their revolving appearance. the author
OF the article says:
what must be the character OF the
faith whose ideal is before usf We
stand bewildered in the sunshine, try
| ing TO realize that 1t Is not dream
! that to these men, our brothers. this
! filth. this degradation, this naked idle
ness, Is the embodiment of sanctity-
and our hearts so out to India, the first
US in such form. This Is Hinduism.
| hoary Hinduism. three thousand years
| old and ruling to-day more than two
| hundred million men and women. The
! spectacle before us IL the outcome of
| her teachings. This is the highest life
one can lead. 10 their minds existence
Is an evil, emancipation from 1t in this
I life, and in countless future lives. is the
| one hope. Detach yourself from earth,
go without clothes; have no home, no
| friends, no papple, do no work; take
no interest in anything nj all: enjoy
| nothing. feel nothing, hope for nothing.
| Detach yoursclf-to do this suffer pain.
| sleep on spikes. starve yourself or eat
carton and numeless denominations:
hold your arms up iii they wlther and
the nails grow through the hand do
anything and everything to get rid of
your supreme curse--conscious exist
cncc. ,
This nightmare dread of existence
is the natural outcome of the trans
migration thcpry-that saddest and
most hopeless Of all human explana-
tons OF life, Think for one moment
OF what 1t would mean to you to be-
lieVe that every living thing on the
face Of the earth was the body OF some
suul-hirds, beasts, Insects, reptiles.
men-all alike .soul-houses. and that
human souls were ccaselessly shifting
! through countless lives, and must for.
! ever SAltt among tneSe, htCotulnE 10
| their merits or dement's? Trans
| migration we call it. and dismiss the
idea with word But to believe that
| idea. to think that the souls you love
| best and that death has called away,
are pcnt up in some body--a jaclSnrs,
a cows, scrpents, perhaps-and Will
| he bound there, feeling, suffering, en-.
| Toying II they can. until death smites
| them once again. and once again they
change their house and pass into some
! other form as coolies. kings. or what
! MOTTO believe that idea. what must
| II mean2 Think Of the burden OF 1t.
| the endless. restless. weary round,
| from which Is no escape; the grip
| of fate that holds you and drives you
on and on; the memorable sentence.
from which Is no appeal, consigning
you to groveling reptile life or loath-