Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-12-17
HOME IN THE NEXT LIFE.
Ex-senator Chandler Believes 1t Will
Be In One of the Stars.

be In One or the stars.
William Il. 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-
sciOusness 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 future life is strong and
ever present with me. 1t is only faith
We have no knowledge and II Is intend
ed that we shall have no knowledge. We
do not live as disembodied spirits, We
so 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
perhaps other new and more joyous
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. 1t can be satisfied only by i'm
mortality.
Admitting the future existence of the
soul. what more logical thought can we
,, haV hot
er part OF the universe TO take up their
abode there? They do not exist here on
this earth. What can be the object of
such an existence? There Is no communi-
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 splritualsm in the com
mon meaning of the word The idea of
spirit rapplngs is entirely unreasonable.
II we go to some OF the stars-to Sirius,
to the North star or to the sun-we shall
be reinvested with physical bodies The
joys of existence attendant upon the use
OF the five senses must not be sacrificed.
And what more reasonable thought than
that we shall be invested with new senses
as enjoyable. IL not more So than the five
we have in this existence?
My idea is 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 and
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 we
have known each other here and shall
have friends among those we meet in
this life and among the countless millions
who have preceded us to the necropolises
OF the past ages
love to think that in the next world
life will be a little easier than 1t is here.
After the cares of this life are over we
shall need rest. The most prevalent hope
is that of n little rest before entering
upon new labors. The new life will be q
little easier. A little rest is what we long
for. But when we reason upon the sub
ject we must believe that the life to come
is one of activity. life of work, a life
OF service.
Senator Chandler does not believe in
the transmigration of the soul on this
planet. Nor does he believe that the
soul has had any previous existence.