Year: 1866

high duties he owes to another sphere OF


being, he can cheerfully respond to the


summons which calls upon him to resign


the visible forthe invisible, the goods of Time


for the inexhaustible treasures Of Eternity.


With courage unabated he can spend hislates


breath In animating encouragements and


sublime consultations to those who watch and


weep by his bedside He plants the shafts


of death with invulnerable faith and hope.


And he goes forth into the future world, as


an explorer into a new regime Of activity,


where industry shall perform its tasks upon


more fertile fields and under happier skies.
| The opinion is false that Sabbath devotion


is all that religion requires; it claims the
life. The resolve is unmanly to devote our
wasted and declining years to spiritual ac-
tivities there should be a universal conse-
Grafton. This high business presses upon
every human being in every class and sta
! ton. And there is no effort that contributes
| to the well-being of this life that may not
! give its rich tribute to the other. There is
no honorable pursuit and no innocent expe-
rience that will not prepare us, if rightly
used, for inefable ministries and enjoy
ments beyond the grave.-Daay Transcript.
THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND LIFE
AFTER DEATH.


Rev Chalincey Giles delivered lecture
on q The Spiritual World and Life After
Death, Sunday evening, at the Cooper IL
stitute, before very large and respectable
audience. Before commencing to speak on
the subject of his lecture, he made few
preliminary remarks concerning the nature
of what is termed the new, or more COM
monty the swedenborgian Church. Per-
haps. said he, there is no class of people
about whom 50 little is known, and concern
ing whom all that is known is false, as that
concerning the people to whom | allude.
We have less sympathy with them, and our
doctrines accord less with them than the
doctrines of any other church. We are not
infidels;. on the contrary, if guilty of any
kind of infdelity, it is in believing great
deal more than any other people believe. 1t
is asserted that we reject the Bible. There
are no persons who believe more firmly in
the Bible. In the exordium of his lecture,
he said previous to the discovery of America
by Columbus, there were many speculations
and theories floating through the minds of
intelligent men concerning the existence of
a new continent, but they were dim and un-
defined, and the new world, if perchance
there was one, was shadowed and obscured
by clouds and doubts Columbus dispelled
the doubts and landed on the shores of the
new world. What Columbus did for Europe
Swedenborg has done for humanity.


There has been among ell nations some
idea Of another world and another life, all
the theories about which were conflicting
and unsatisfactory. What it is, where it is,
were questions TO which there was no salts
factory or reasonable answer previous to the
time of Swedenborg. He was permitted to
visit the spirit world that those who lay
aside their prejudice and give him fair
hearing can form as good an idea of it as did
the people of Europe of this country after
the discovery of Columbus. Swedenborg
declares that the spirit world is a real world.
In it are mountains, lakes, woods, sun, an
atmosphere, &c, but more, there is an angel
spirit. There was a spiritual atmosphere,
which the inhabitants of the spiritual world
breathe as we do the atmosphere of the natu-
raj world. But there is the greatest difference
between the two worlds as to their origin.
Everything we do in this world we have to
do spiritually before we do it naturally. The
Rev. DIR. Giles proceeded to illustrate this
proposition, from which he said the following
three conclusions were deducible:


IDSl- ne spiritual NOIlu Is Il real WOTlu
in the full sense of the term, with all the
divisions and forms essential to a world


Second-While it is real world, it must
possess qualities suited to the wants of its in
habitants, and must besperfectly adapted to
the state of every individual. The objects
in it are far more distinct and substantial to
every spiritual sense than the objects of this
world are to our natural sense.


Third-fThe inhabitants ofthat world con-
sist of spirits both good and evil, who have
lived upon the earth since its creation, and
who have passed from it through the
gate of death. He then proceeded to show
that these conclusions were in perfect ac-
cordance with the nature of man, and with
the teachings of the Holy Scriptures. Men
attempted.to escape from these conclusions
by ignorance and denial; but the only an
swer they can give to this is that they are
absurd because they are contrary to their
opinions. Others deny them in doctrine.
But they talk about standing around the
throne of God, and singing and playing on
golden harps and at the same time they deny
that there is a world with gold and harps
and music. He next quoted the Scripture
authorities from Elisha. Ezekiel, 81 saw
visions Of God" Paul, "He knew man
who was caught up into the third heaven"
&c Mr.. Giles quoted from the Scriptures
in several other places, and concluded his
lecture with a review of the beauties of the