The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05
,Hoqu Man May 6
| 6 6 LfUe Again.

more is little comfort for the man who
.ads extinction and oblivion after death
ro,umbus Bradfords book Birth,
= cbance.p despite the alluring title.
author seems to claim that there is
..,Ar world for humans than this, and
80, ar ghost life. We are now ex-
,,a IN the state Of Immortality, In bodies
- .orve ms mere tenements for per.
~, nrinclple of life. that is set free by
IA into the air. Floating about, like
h.cillus of cholera. perhaps, II enters
,oitlnp human organism and infects 1t
!. .,sonl" Thus the immortal principle
80, through waking and sleeping pc
!. There is not much memory Of the
Evenings or circumstances Of any ire.
=. neriod nor of the experience Or
Ing Gained. Heredity, however, is a.
,n,sa for. There Is when all goes weil
,n,i,noi upward tendency, a mental,
raj and physical gain. As this theory, J
rod on with certain variations, has at
AGA the serious attention OF quite
- following It will be Interesting to
o,a the authors own words. bearing
his most salient points. Strangely
oirb. as It will seem 10 the orthodox,
}orrds his contention largely upon
.,nture and claims to expound the ten
Of the true Christianity. As this BOOK
IL. in reality with the question Of living
al, or of resurrection, Its publication at
rester season Is timely; albeit, tho
,s,s.once OF a forGctful germ does not
IN like very satisfactory resurrcc-
rho srst count In my Indictment against
coIl,l orthodoxy In regard to death Is
mo score Of Inconsistency. 1t teaches
AMI ~ We arc good we shall 60 to
avon when we die. At the same time 1t
,s MS that death is the penalty OF sin.
afb. doctrine that all who die III Infancy
20 I'm their abode in the house that is
prna, In The heavens leads logically and
ritably TO the conclusion that all our
orts TO lessen infant mortality, espe
Ily among the population Of the slums.
,st produce JOY and exultatlon among
movers of he'll. Let us save the lives
the Stun children If we wish them to
come the children Of hell!
~
Death. therefore according to our WORK
hypothesis. IS the power that pushes
|ck the shadow on the dial, and alsows MS
Il begin life over again-the ono thing
4 so often wish could be done that we
cht Improve our conduct. 1t may seem
hi we are not getting amy benefit from
Her since we do not remember from one
Hetme TO the other. so MS to avoid the
ngs that harmed VS. and pursue the
4bngs that helped us in a former lifetime.
BIZ are we sure we do not remember?
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n our consciousness had to he burdencd
tn the memory of these painful expert
ces from one lifetime to another, and
rough all our lifetlmes, We could never
any happier in childhood than at any
her time. The face of every little child
build look as haggard and carc-worn as
face Of the old man or woman who
battled with lfe's difficulties for three
pre- years and ten,
There is no evidence In the Bible, or
ewhere, that human soul had or ever
ll have an existence except in connec
IN with matter; any such thing as a
embodied human soul or dsembodied
man spirit never has been seen. and
have no authentic intimation that any
ch prodigy ever will be seen.
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sDavlds words concerning his dead child:
shall 60 10 him." are being quoted as
dence OF his belief In conscious life
ntnued after death, but in reality moth
can be made out of tscrn more than
bit as his child had gone to the grave, be
bnself would 60 there also.
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The jotnt.snake seemed to have pos
Fsed intelligence and power enough to |
y ITS parts together and live again |
mplete. The orthodox theory Of the hui
IN personality has a ma disjointed |
death and simply pulled together again
the resurrection.
The only possible means by which we |
nd be positively assured that any of our |
&c who have died have gone into some
aim apart from their bodies, to stay and |
JOY their existence there as a fnallty, |
ud be the direct and unmistakable per
nal testimony Of the inhabitants of that |
I'M who were once inhabitants of our
blm
axe the case of the famous Laura
iogman. She could not see, hear. taste
smell She could correspond with the
lectiye world through only one channel.
sense OF touch According to the com
notion, death was all that she needed
isee her soul from that dark prison in
zen her body Enclosed her. But she had
same instructive love of life that Is
Effect.
NE In order to keep from dying any
~ strikes me as doing something as did
uan | Knew who turned his roguish horse
MS corn field and kept him there to
him from breaking in.
'aere' ihen had Samuel been during the
= ume he had been dead. and whore
ne come from at the solicitation of
he mad been in this earth, and
y me earth ne came, not from the
sns This statement I make on his
testimony and that OF the witch The
~ teslihed that she saw gods ascend
out OF the earth,'' not descending from
heavens.
w word human" comes directly from
Latin word humus. which means Nthe