Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-09-09

,ous atonement miraculous concen-
eioH' regeneration by faith. baptism
anu other monkey business: a RELIC.
ION mat promises a heaven of idleness
tor all those who agree with MS and a
neIl lor tnose who do not, Marilla re-
saLu as barbaric, degrading, absurd
and unworthy.
lou own prosperity, power, life
,oVe, land and Immortality lust as
long as you can hold on to them and
no longer. Man is only a protozoan
WEIGHING through a fluid called at.
niosphere: he is here but for a day
ana knows neither where he came
from nor where he is going.
we are just as immortal as anyone
can be today. What boots it how
much food there is if we cannot eat,
what Will it matter to us about i'm
mortality If we have no sensation to
leel pain at its loss? We have. every
moment, all of the Immortality we
can use.
success is the most hygenic thing
OF which We know-the glowing, Clio.
rlous sense of SUGGEST Hard work
does not kill any one unless it is &C.
companied with a feeling of failure.
10 work and believe that all your
Toll is for naught, that you are losing
ground, slipping back, means depres-
slon-death. And the belief in per-
sonal immortality, with its ACCOMPANY
ing threats has forced upon men the
thought that this life is a failure
the world a desert drear. When your
attention is taken from this world
and directed to another, the sense of
success vanishes, the body droops;
exhiliration gives way to depression
and animation either disappears or
resolves itself into feverish hysteria.
Correct thinking is largely a matter
of bodily condition. And the sum-
ming up is that we will never produce
a great and magnificent race of men
and women until we cease all thought
of another world and devote our
selves to this.
Emerson, who never preached per-
sonal immortality, in his "Over-Soul"
had something to say very much to
the point. The passage is this
Revelation is the disclosure of the
soul. The popular notion of a revela-
ton is, that it is telling of fortunes.
In past oracles of the soul, the under
standing seeks to find answers to SEN
sual questions, and undertakes to tell
from God how long men shall exist,
what their hands shall do, and who
shall be their company, adding even
names, and dates, and places. But
mir
check this low curiosity. An answer
in words is delusive; it is really no
answer to the questions you ask Do
not demand description of the coun-
tries toward which you sail.
Men ask of the Immortality of the
soul, and the employments of heaven,
and the state of the sinner and so
forth. They even dream that Jesus
has left replies to precisely these in
Never moment did
that sublime spirit speak in their pa
tots. To truth, justice, love, and the
attributes of the soul, the idea of i'm
is essentially associated,
Jesus, living in these moral senti-
ments, needless of sensual fortunes,
needing only the manifestations OF
these. never made the separation OF
the idea of duration from the essence
IF these attributes; never uttered a
syllable concerning the duration Of the
soul. 1t was left to his disciples to
sever duration from the moral ele
nents, and to teach the Immortality
If the soul as a doctrine, and main
ain it by evidences.
G.... L.