The Washington times., 1918-06-02

WHAT is the souI?
WHERE Is the soul?
good thing does it do good to believe in
Ssui and Immortality?
It is not only good but necessary and wise, apart
from al questions Of faith to believe that the soul within
you Is immortal.
It is good thing for the mother to believe that her
toOhess newborn baby will day be President Of the
United States It makes the baby important worth
while President is worth nursing, washing, dressing
hall dozen times day.
Belief in immortality of the soul is reasonable because
as Charles Fourier points OUT God does not deceive His
creatures"
BE gives them wishes that are destined to be real
Nan from the beginning has longed for wings for the
power to hy-and today he flies.
Twenty years ago you could have found million
men say that any fool who suggested that
human beings would fly one day simply because they
WANTED to fly
intense desire is for immortal he- is not desire
based cowardce, fear of death For do not know
what death is the animals do not know it. do not fear it.
Our reader says 81 do not agy.. Dit you that Belief
0rtaI soul useful and the contrary belief not
Our friend is wrong
Not only is belief in immortality useful but the
development of civilization this planet would have
been impossible without it. Without it life here would
be horrible monstrous.
woman losing her child believes that it still lives
beyond the grave, and is happy That belief makes
possible for her to 60 living
As civilization and education develop poverty dis
appears and crime with it, belief in punishment beyond
the grave viii become unimportant
But belief in immortality the inspiration Of the human
race, win last forever. And 1t viii prove to be a belief
justified.
Eternal power would not mystfy, dslude and cheat
millions of beated beings by planting in them longing
to be realized
.Where is the soul? What is the soul?" Those ques
tOns viii not be answered this earth Three things are
real
First MATTER the solid earth upon which you
stand the material body in which your spirit lives the
marble Of which the sculptor makes his statue
Second, FoRCE-the power applied to matter that
transforms it, electricity the suns heat draw
ing up the matter making the clouds and rain the light
ming that flashes in the sky the power that draws the steel
to the magnet.
Third SPIRIT or SOUL, the thinking planning, con-
scous power that controls force and applies force
ter the farmer applies the plOw to the ground Force
contents whatever the SPIRIT wills
You see musician like Paderewsh at his piano
The piano represents matter Its keys strings and sound
ngboard silent and useless until force directed by the
spirit is applied to produce harmony.
The energy in the players hands is force. The soul
the conscious power that understands music mechanics
harmony mathematics and all fields of knowledge directs
the fingers applying the force and produces melody.
WHERE is the soul? It is nowhere.
Is the soul Of the musician in his ear the sense of
hearing? No.
Beethoven wrote his finest music after he had become
stone deaf and conducted his orchestra when he could
not hear sound The soul of music in him had nothing
do with his ears just the music in PadereWsk or
a Paganin has nothing to do with the fingers the
muscles.
The soul of is everywhere and nowhere in man
body and in his environment just the Divine Soul rul
ing the universe and all the suns and planets is
where and nowhere.
You are your OuOn SOUL that is all there is of
you except the lime in your bones fesh hair nerves. ana
cothes-the mere matter.
That disbelief in the existence of the soul and in i'm
mortality would do great harm no one can question.
II is not, as primitive minds will tell YOU that men
would commit murders and all sorts of crime if they did
not believe in rewards and punishments after death
The murderer kills and the criminal steas-in spite
Of the fact that both believe absolutely in hereafter
with punishments and rewards, and humble PRAYERS
through trembling lips they walk the prison cell or
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Whereas the unbelieyer sufficiently developed mental
lConinusd u Ceumn)