The Newtown bee., 1900-04-20
LOCAL AFFAIRS. VirgiliuS Council Enter
 tainment, AT THE TOWN HALL, Largely Attended And A suc-
 cess. LECTURE BY ATTORNEY JAMES T. LYNCH OF BRIDGEPORT.
THE PROGRAM IN DETAIL.

A good sized audience was present al the Town hall, Monday night, at the en- tertainment given under the auspices o1 Virgilius council, Knights of Columbus Sandy Hook. The main attraction of the evening was the able lecture by Attorney James T. Lynch of Bridgeport, the great. CT part of which is given below. The balance of the program was of a variety nature, and was given with considerable zest. E. J. Reilly and John Ray sang excellently several solos, and the latter also amused the audience by some clever I jig dancing. Doretta Gordon and Willie Ryan, Prof Platt and w. F. Burns played piano duets. Prof c. s. Plstt presided at the piano in his usual acceptable man. ner. The entertainment closed with 8 roaring farce, entitled, "Dr McBeaten," !" n which John F. Heating, W. F. Burns, k. J. Troy, Martin Purtell and Timothy McMahon tcOk part. The programs of the evening were generously furnished by R. H. Beers & Co. Attorney Lynch, who was introduced by Representative keating, spoke substantially as follows i:
 The hopes, the yearnings, the expec- tancies, the ambitions of the heart, the soul, the mind are the intangible planes upon which our character is formed, our efforts organized and accomplished. This | lay down as the basic principle upon UuhiOh ! he O% ho ties in the Air"
 We are told that man was formed from the dust of the earth, and that God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became 8 living soul. If we take this statement on our faith alone, we should conclude that man was made by some mysterious union of earth and spirit, body and soul.
 The legends of creation that have oat- ed down to us from the twilight of the aforementioned past, tells us that God sent his angels to the four quarters of the world to get clay where with to make man. That he did make man of the clay thus obtained, and laid HAAA ALA GAAS 6GA4 b0 LA AAoL AG WhS AH beautiful as 8 doll, and the angels gather cd round in admiration, until some one inquired why such a useless thing was made; that in reply they were told the man thus far was only clay, but to wait and see; that God then made & soul and breathed 1t into man. AS soon as the soul took possession the eyes began to open, and looked around to see what could be seen; the ears began to listen to hear what might be heard; the tongue began to tell what glorious things the eyes had seen, and what sweet sounds the ears had heard; that, as the various parts of the body felt the influence of the soul, each part began at once to per- form it's respective duties, and he felt determined to lay no longer like clod upon the earth; that he rose erect from the ground, and thus became a living man. Since that time the angels have regarded him as but little lower than themselves.
 Perhaps this story Is not literally true, but who shall say it does not shadow forth truth? Some writers on the DOW CT of the mind say that within every hu- man being there is an invisible person that is insepsrably connected with and forms part of himself, controls and di. rects the visible body and all it's mem- bers that the eye is mere vehicle to convey light to the conscious inner eye of the mind that the ear only transmits sound to the invisible hearing ear within ; that the hands and feet are merely in- struments that blindly obey some hidden force. They cite the case of the black smith who lost one of his lower limbs, and who would unconsciously stoop to scratch the missing member and by this fact, and many others of like character, claim to prove that the invisible and on- ly foot that ever did feel was still there, and it's feeling capacity unimpaired.
 Can we say this theory Is visionary or altogether false? You knew a man in life; you see him after he is dead. Re has the same eyes, but they do not see the light; the same ears, but they hear no sounds; the same tongue, but it speaks no word of welcome; his arm has every muscle, but the power of lifting ia absent. Something has gone, and it will never come again. Can you tell me what has gone away2 Everything you could ever see, or feel, or handle is still in your presence, and yet he is not the same that he was before. You never saw his spir- 1t; you never saw his soul. If some great reasoner should come along and ask you if ever 8 human soul was seen by mortal eyes, or if 6 soul could make the body see and hear and talk and walk, you might be compelled to answer No,
 And still you stand gazing at the white face SC near, sleeping in peace in it's everlasting sleep, you Iknow that ar important something of your former friend has gone-he is not what he was. And as you ponder, again Eruns the old old question, ''It man die, shall he live lagain?" "Can the dead die foreverP' And the very longing that urges tht question echoes back the answer. NC such longing was ever made in vain.
 Faith and memory united and lool backward to the unforgotten past; faitl and hope unite and grasp the future yei to be. assume as fact, therefore with further inquiry, that there is some thing about every one that cannot b seen or heard, measured or weighed