Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-23
SHOWS DEATH DOES
NOT END ALL THINGS
SAYS HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
EXISTS AFTER LIFE
Rev. J. {. COLON Asserts Most lntelIl-
gent Minds of World Believe in
Future Survival of Per-
sonallty

Rev. j. e. COLON, pastor of the New
Jerusalem Christian church, 2SO51s
South Union street, preached last even
ing on Does Death End All?"
1.-THE most intelligent minds of the
world in our day." said Mr.. COLON,
have been LED, on scientific, philo-
sophie and Biblical grounds, to affirm
death does not END all. The Demon
continuity and of the conservation Of
energy has shaken the foundations of
materialism and made it apparent all
visible things are but the significant
drapery of an Ineligible, unseen uni
verse.
I'm the department of biology also,
thoughtful investigators stand amazed
when they realize the miraculous work.
ines of protoplasm, in plant and animal
tissues; for this life-serum in its magic
movements manifests the presence of
an intelligent and beneficent unseen
weaver, the soul. By the logic of
thought we are forbidden to affirm that
when the body, as an effect, is dis
solved, the soul, as it's cause, suffers a
like disintegration; for it's relation to
the body is that of the musician to his
harp.
But the most cogent, scientific ar
gunent in support of the survival of
human personality is found in the more
recent disclosures of experimental psy-
chology. The international society for
psychic research for more than quar-
ter of a century has busted itself in
collecting and digesting all sorts of
psychic phenomena. The outcome of
this study is a positive conviction death
does not terminate human conscious
ness but rather exalts 1t to superior
sphere of intelligence, association and
progress
Is Fruitage of Theistic Evolution
s'The philosophical argument is the
fruitage of theistic evolution; for, as
John F'iske remarks, so far as our
knowledge of nature goes the whole
momentum of it carries us onward to
the conclusion that the unseen world
has a real existence; and it is
but following out the analogy to re-
gard that unseen world as the theater
where the ethical process is destined
to reach it's full contamination
Moreover, the fact man is capable
of uniting himself to God in faith and
love makes it certain the organism of
his thought and affection is susceptible
of endless duration. What can dissolve
it, if it nourishes itself on the incor-
ruptible food of Divine mercy ana
truth?
1.-THE argument from revelation CEN
tiers about the teaching and resurrec-
ton of Jesus Christ, who brought life
and Immortality to light. Having shown
himself alive after his passion, by many
infallible proofs, and in his appari-
tions speaking the things concerning
the kingdom of God, his disciples were
convinced, beyond doubt, death does
not end all, but that to be absent from
the body is to be present with the
Lord.
This Biblical proof of Immortality
has received a remarkable intensified
ton through the seership and writings
of Emanuel Swenborg, who, under the
auspices of Jesus Christ, has opened
the spiritual meaning of scripture and
thereby disclosed to the intelligent
thought of the race the constitution,
laws and Inhabitants of the unseen
world, together with the relation 1t
bears to the plane OF our present phys
ical consciousness. Thus do science,
reason and revelation coincide in de-
claring death does not end ALL