The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-02
Or HAVlTHORNEs
VIGOROUS REPLY }. {. } |. J !
Submits Arguments IN Answer
to DR.. Taylor's Lee
y tire.
lis BELATED DISCIPLES G: |. :! J
Or. Taylor's Followers Are Bee
hind the Times, Says
Minister.

Dr. ]. B. Hawthorne, pastor Of the
Grove Avenue Baptist Church replied
Sunday morning to the now noted lecture
BY Or. W. H. Taylor OH Science and
soul," recently delivered before u class
In medical jurlsprudence III the McdiNil
College or Virginia. IN tile audience, by
special Invitation, were a number OF ply.
sicians ard medical students,
Dr. Hawthorne said:
.,1f n man die. shall he live again r.
Job xlv:l4.
.,Thcrc shall be n resurrection OF the
dead, both OF the Just and unjust."--1Acts
a.ly; X Know that Il our earthly house Of
this tabernacle b were dissoiYed. we have
building of God, an house not mage
with hands. eternal in the hcaycns."--
The belief. iii the existence Of a future
lfeslIs as old as the human race. A bel,
Enoch. Noah Abraham, ls sn i, af fSi.
faith faith they believed themselves TO be
..plgrims and strangers" IN the present
wi1ch the u GOD whom they served had pre-
+ pared for them. The Egyptians, an older
race than re Jews based eacs shejir W N
Of the : D ef' Conscious existence in
some form after death was the universal yer,
their great poet, was no more Q material
Il list than the apostle Paul Beyond the
grave he saw the disembodiedl ! spirits L, &, Of
ian under world in the sunless west.
VI here men are punished for their crimes.
He depicts, ths E.ysadn noble h hes
eternal fellowship with the deafness
Virgil voices the, common belief 81 the
Non x1yha n rIegcffbeS
4 ium." the eternal abiding place OF good
and useful men. Z.
hsre sees ne the s1r str6o9s Sea ses
Priests who while earthly life remained.
Preserved that life uns6iled. unstaincd; 4s
Rfsasd saas o4h
4 Inventors. who by arts refined
The, common .life. q q human kind, -
q BY services 10 others done:
a goodly brotherhood. bed!ght
With coronals Of virgin white, t. !, !,
reproductIot, Of virgIl's thoug ht concern
Ing the wicked dead in the future life.
A thousand years age a.. East indian
viction OF his countrymcn when he wrote:
'.rhese bodies that enclose the soul. In
scrutable,
the soul can be DESTROYED.
And he who. deems It destroyer. are
alike mis ia -, ,1,,ed 1. !.
born nor doth.it ever die.
But in our day believers III Immortality
n rsgG army
Taylor, il, his recent lecture before one
Of the medical colleges Of this city. com
ism when he said 1.-THE soul dies with the
GOSPEL Of dirt 'S.a 2 4 Il. a
DR.. Taylor's Reasons.
What are some Of the rea sons which
Insh FOR aGse YeF or WeR
which their. greatest reliance is placed.
growth OF the body;t natures as the
body natures and decays as the body
The ;be 11Gm
4 d.es when the body dies. An injury to a
mans brain makes an entire change In
his mental and moral IRE This
4 but destroyed. the inner consciousness IS
also destroyed. asss5 ~ rs .
/ believe this to be n fair statement OF
the main reason which the modern mate
! rialistT has for fc1ectlnA The doctrine OF
IL Ie. me- modestl = suggest aa aGu TAYLOR
what beiated il they have not learned TIA
istic argument was based are being shat
tered into fragments BY more extended
observation Science; on which !. mat 3 + !,
forging the Weapons for It's overthrow.
In the light furnished by fuller investiga-
ton, the most masterful men OF the mod
ern scientific world have been compelled
to recast their conceptions about matter.
2 What is their latest testimony. They now
tell us that death destroys nothing. 1t
y does not destroy matter; 1t only changes
It. Since the creation OF the universe not
one atom Of matter has been annihlated.
forms OF matter The elements OF which
the infinite power which created them.
The conclusion derived from this incon-
trovcrtible proposition Is that II death
does not and cannot destroy the material
elements OF mans being, there Is no log
ical ground for believing that 1t destroys
The spirit which dwells within and anil
mates his material body. Il
Is IA The fact that the mental bowers deterl-
crate as the physical being decays gives
no support, to he belief that death an-
initiates the mind. Az admit that the
the mind is hampcred when the instru-
& ment is worn out. That Is the basis for
& DR. Osler's OPT Mon that the old should
p be chloroformcd. But that fact does not
demonstrate that the mind pershes with
its Instrument. Beethoven could not ex-
z tract perfect music from a worn.out plano,
but that does not prove that Beethoven
y could not get aonther plano and make as
Z good music on It as he ever produced
81 IF Wllhem5 should be so unfortunate as
in q railroad wreck. and then fail to
evoke from its strings such heavenly mus
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