Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-12-21
HOME IN THE NEXT LIFE.
Elk Senator Chandler Believes 1t viii
Be In One of the Stars.


Be In One of the Stars.
William L. Chandler, former United
States senator from New Hampshire
and former secretary of the navy, has
come into the limelight again as the
advocate of new religious doctrine.
He believes that after we lay down
our physical beings upon this earth
our souls will go to some of the stars,
there to be reinvested with physical
bodies and to have the same con-
seriousness Of existence as here, only
to greater perfection.
Mr. Chandler, who talked with a re-
porter of the New York World at his
summer home at Waterloo, n. H., be-
fore his departure for Washington,
where he will spend the winter, said:
My faith in a future life is strong and
ever present with me. 1t is only faith.
We have no knowledge, and 1t is intend
ed that we shall have no knowledge. We
do not live as disembodied spirits. We
go to one of the stars, where we inhabit
new physical bodies, which embrace our
present souls. We see and hear and have
the senses, taste, smell and touch, and
senses.
We must start with the vast. startling.
overwhelming thought that there exists
a power that can create an immortal soul,
capable of living for ever. Once created.
the soul must go on and on throughout
the cons Of eternity. The great object OF
existence could not be satisfied by ami
hilation. It can be satisfied only by i'm
mortality
Admitting the future existence of the
soul. what more logical thought can we
have than that our souls go to some 9TH
er part Of the universe to take up their
abode there? They do not exist here on
I this earth What can be the object OF
such an existence? There is no commune
| cation between the souls of the departed
! and the souls Of those who remain. Such
| a spirit would be a very unhappy one.
| do not believe in spiritualism In the COM
mon meaning Of the word. The idea OF
spirit rappings Is entirely unreasonable.
! II we 60 to some Of the stars-to Sirius
to tho North star or to the sun-we shall
| be reinvested with physical bodies. The
| Joys Of existence attendant upon the use
| Of the Ave senses must not be sacrificed
| And what moro reasonable thought thar
that we shall be invested with new senses
as enjoyable. II not more so. than the Ave
we have in this existence?
! MY idea "a that when our souls leave
this earth we do not scatter to different
planets. This would be terrible separa.
ton. Suppose we are sent to Mars ant
our dearest friends have gone to Sirius
The very thought Is distressing.
Surely in the great beyond we shall re-
Join our friends. We shall not scatter
| We shall know each other there as w
J have known each other here and shall
have friends among those we meet II
! this life and among the countless million'
who have preceded us to the necropolise:
! Of the past ages
I love to think that In the next worle
life will be a little easier than 1t Is here
After the cares Of this life are over w
shall need rest. The most prevalent hop'
Is that of a little rest before enterint
upon new labors. Tho new life Will be
little easier. A little rest Il what we lonf
for. But when we reason upon the SUD
ject we must believe that the life to COM
is one OF activity. life OF work, a Iit'
of service.
Senator Chandler does not believe II
the transmigration Of the soul on THU
planet Nor does he believe that thu
soul has had any previous existence.