The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-08-12
IRE DEATH AND IMMORTALITY

LIFE DEATH AND IMMORTALITY
'lf a man dle, shall he live againg"
Never was this 0ld question 0l lob
asked with more interest than Il is
today. II Il could be sen at rest by
answers from the past, IL might
surely be thought a settled question
4 any amount OF agreement in the
PAST ages could settle anything. Il
has been IN the faith OF the best
men IN all ages, and not OF these
alone, but OF the great mass OF man.
KIND in an ages and an races.
Christianity won it's earliest triumph
largely By boldly procl8imiug the
resurrection Of the I.ord,
Speculative thought is accumu-
latine vast mass of evidence in
proof Of the faith in immortality A
Harvard lectureship Is devoted to
confirming this faith The Society
for Psychical Research is accumulate.
ing evidence on this point The late
frederick Nv. II Myers left two
bulky volumes on Human Person.
aiity and Its Survival After Death
An eminent physician OF New York
DR., William Hanna Thomson. pre-.
sents in Everybody's Magazine
brief popular argument with some
scientific statements OF facts that
will be novel to many readers. Life,
he claims, in all forms, from the
highest TO the lowest. is always in
diyiduab no one form ever merging
into another The germs Of hydrn-
phobia and yellow fever can not be
seen, even with a microscope. vet
they are as distinct as d COW and a
sneep.
There Is no spontaneous genera
tion. Only life can originate life
The first living forms were one-celled
In the Cambrian age the first of the
world, many celled forms of life be-
gan 10 appear BUT in the first cell
life potentially the myriad cells of
the largest animal d plant
In his poetic Dream of the tJnh
verse" lean P.lul saw even itg ap-
parent voids teeming with life. But
DR. Thomson sees quite otherwise.
The sums are not habitable None
OF the sister planets OF our system
can support beings al all like our
selves, and associate living things.
The ineyitable8end of life is death
Escaping disa 1ses, we must fail all
length victims OF numberless micfo-
scoplc enemies. which also work the
dissolution OF the dead organism.
great advantage came with the
appearance OF man ON earth. His
faculties of knowledge and achieve
ment are limitless He has, like 9th
er animals, two brain hemispheres,
one devoted to purely animal func.
tons, the other he makes human left
lr right, as lie is right or left hand.
go. Every acquisition has its place in
That lobe, French, English. mathe.
natics, etc, each has its place. De
stroy that and that department Of
knowledge is lost. But behind brain
ife Is the personality that uses ii
Man alone Is q person. conscious
personality Is quite independent OF
ne material body Brain Is the in |
stfuHent Of the person, no part OF |
ne personality. The recognition of |
his fact leads to the universal fixed
CONVICTIONS Of personal immortality
lNha possibility Of human improve
meat, the difficulty of attaining de-
sired good and the comparative ease
y achieving ends Of evil minds are
iwelt on as giving reason to believe
n a future life. Through this faith
Christianity triumphed
Cooperation, begun in the far off
lge when many ceIled being began To
le, Is part of the highest eiviliza.
ion and will reach perfection 'fn
ne world OF all co operation where
'he will be the greatest who ean beln I
y minister the most 10 others.