The mirror., 1915-03-25
DIVINE CREATION OF
MAN and THE |MM0R-
TAL|TY OF HIS SOUL
The Relationship of the Ma
terial and Perishable in
Man to Immortality.
A ForcefuI Disquisition on the Subject of
Mans Creation to q Higher Purpose
Than That Of Brute Creation and The
Immortality of His Soul The Exalted De-
sign Of The Great Architect.
Chautauqua Paper by DR.. p. M.

CnUULOU4UG fQpeT Oy DT. Il. WI.
It might seem rather absurd, even
ridiculous for any mortal being to
discuss such deep subject, or to
even make an attempt to get a
solution of the creation of our own
material Being" and possible sac
red eternity of our own Spiritual
Being" but it is such vital prob
lem, and it creates the deepest de-
sire to learn more about the highest
product of the animal kingdom
man-and to enlighten on the des-
tiny of the Soul. and its possible fut-
ure existence What the Prophet
said, the Poet saw, and the Sciences
proved, and all will equally abide
forever, for all alike are the voices
of the Unseen to declare the mys-
terry of the ascent of Man. To give
any scientific answer and explain
alton and to draw logical conclus-
ion, we must 90 back to the history
of the first creation, to the beginning
of this wonderful work, to the mys-
terious artificial production of the
life of Man. AS Burroughs says, the
earth surface is warm and moist,
the atmosphere saturated with watery
vapor and many other unstable COM
pounds and summon all the material
elements of life,-carbon, oxygen,
hydrogen, and nitrogen, and with it
little sodium, iron and phosphors
and others TO make them run to-
gether to form a paste, jelly-llke
body and endow this mass with the
power of growth, the foundation,
the establishment of life, is effected,
reproduction and all forms of or
ganization will follow under the ir-
resistible law of evolution"
This is the physical, chemical
force. By mere matter of choice or
accident some cells produce the
mineral, other the vegetable forms,
but some cells by better production
and superior nutrition develop the
animal life and produce body, man
mind, and this is the vital force, the
Divine power. 1t shows clearly
the difference between non-living
living. The rock and the tree that
grow side by side, the insects and
rodents that burrow under it may
be made out of the same stuff, clay
mass or jelly but there is in one in
telligent vitality, a spirit in one
buh not in the other. Even if the
dog or man, pine or an oak re.
vealed by physical and chemica
analysis the same kind of an element
and material. there is a substance
a living matter, a something thai
possess the power of starting anG
kindling the activity that makes 6
body, a living body and both science
of Physics and Chemistry are no
equal to the task of such production
The almost formless lump of ella!
is by a magic shaped and reshapet
into a living body with soul ant
mind by Divine Potter.
Through the whole length of ere
alton we can feel assured that
higher power than Physical force
has presided over the evolution O
the material world after the ere
alton and formation of the minera
world; it is equally presumable, tina
vegetable life preceded animal lif'
because vegetation could better tol
crate the excess of carbonic acid il
the atmosphere, and in the waters
and is capable of drawing its sus
tenance from the mineral world
while animal life relies exclusivel!