The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-09-27


: not only believe IL tl,r Immortality
Of the soul but | bclicyc in the i'm
mortality Of The tpdy. The world
never looked upon nor listened to IL
greater man than Saul of Tarsus, s..
Paul the divine. In head and heart
and culture he had few peers and no
supcrior,. In breathing forth the
supreme desire Of his great manhood
he said "Oh, that may know Him
and the power Of His resurrection
Some doubt the immortality Of the
body and the resurrection Of the dead
because OF some questions that are
asked. When one asks, Suppose
that man leg il buried in Virginia
and his body in Georgia. suppose his
body has been crcmatcd and only the
few ashes In the urn remain; suppose
that he died at sea and his body has
been fed to the fishes, how can the
body be brought forth from the gravc?"
A German chemist passing through
his laboratory with some friends on
one occasion turned aside and picked
vi a beautifully engraved cup and
said: Gentlemen, this is a present
prize very highly In handling tho
cup by accident one Of the friends
dropped it, it fell into jar Of acid
and melted away like snow that had
fallen in water. "Oh," said the un-
fortunate friend. "scc what | have
done; | have dropped your cup and it
fell into the jar Of acid and has melted
and disappeared forever, and how I
regret it." "Sorry it happ ,ned,"
said the chemist, "but not SO bad as
you think, my friends" He stepped
to one of his shelves, took down jar,
and picked out piece of mineral and
dropped it into the jar Of acid, and all
tho silver which composed tho cup
Immediately settled to the bottom Of
tho jar. Hc took out the silver again
and said
''It is all right, my friend; I will
send it back to the manufactory and
have it more beautifully engraved
than it was BEFORE
So, then, I say, bury the limb in
one State, and the body in another, or
burn the body to ashes, or feed it to
, the fishes in the seas. God has O
mineral in the laboratory Of the skies
which, when he drops it down upon
this old earth on the morning Of the
resurrection, bone will come to bone
sinew to sinev, nnd immortal man will
stand forth more beautiful in symme-
try, more glorious in character
mortal soul and body. The North
American Indian hoped and believed
that by good conduct ho would be
transferred TO the "happy hunting
grounds" The gods Of the heathcn,
which they admitted were stocks and
stones, were but mediums through
which they could talk TO the great i'm
mortal Spirit, and their effort has
been always not only to arpeasc deity
here, but to look to rewards from deity
hereafter.
A religion without Immortality could
not survive the spiritual life Of its
author; religion that does not COM
prehcnd the Immortality Of the soul
is neither divine nor human nor
devil;sh-;. Is simply british lives
and stays with that which is below
man, the brute creation.
When religion or an individual
closes up the Bible and turns away
from its teachings on the subject Of
Immortality care not what science OF
philosophy or reasoning he may ap-
rroash or employ, then he goes to
teacher who is as ignorant as himself
and to school whose curriculum does
not embrace or teach him anything
more than he knew the first day he
was born into tho world. Science can
name and number the stars, science
can break rocks, trace the courses Of
our rivers, give altitude and longitude
to the topography Of the world; sci
cnce can strotch its wires across con-
tincnts, climb up and dig down, but
this world with its wisdom will find
that God is past finding out through
such channels.
! Newton found that when hc humbly
knelt before his God he saw more and
knew more OF his God and got closer
to Him than he could with his most
powerful telescopes looking toward
the heavens. No wonder men doubt;
mankind stands inverted now in the
presence Of tho angels. We have nut