LIFE BEFORE BIRTH.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 746, 19 February 1910, Page 14

LIFE BEFORE BIRTH.

sm o; LODGE SAYS IT-IS^PpSSIBLE. " An. address by on pr&existence'i and : man's destiny . created a profound l } impression ton .a.. gathering.. of' men'TM/Mpseley;';Bii3hinghafii',-.,recontlyt I '. Exisfeh'ce, he-'aiid,.; was :a.;series of ; ad-. ventrores. There were three great adventures'. which 'TOiy-'^'fei^'-i'eSMjJed—birth, death;, and..marriage.::';Thero. was a truth;in; the. idea ; of pre-oxisUnce in some .eense,'' thoug:hvit»wiis.'nb): a trttth'.'easy 'to i "formulate; He did not'in. the least suggest such: things,:asr,reincarnation, transmigratibn, or anything of . that sort. Those were: fancies. (,But .we:,were fragments of 4he'%reat'erVreserveir' , .''6f mind,<of- spirit, :andiof-life.:,Birth.was -the gradually en:tering;intd'ass6ciation'with :matter. VVhat happened before our. incarnation .we had forgotten- or.~we'tev6r; kife'w:";Many gehi--■nses,^frpni.:pla^.;dp?vn;;4thp.uglit:::that..we it 'fahciful, poetic'- 0n1y..- , jH6; ! was*beginning to; think.eitr.was jmore l ; than ;that;—What was tho meaning ;o'f .Wo 'wort here to bccomo- ivorthy of our origin, to realiso. pur ; -divine.:&onncetion,: to .develop a,character and-'a:will-, to. become ripe for freedom. ;..Tliafc ,was ~the"':dangerous gift thiit. had?.beeil ."bestowed, "upon us. .By scientific;-investigation :Ke had come 'to perceive. gradually?! that : :C the-.; /Christian .churches had; hold of .a. great truth.; All they .said : alibut-.'it .need, not b» truth, but there was a truth in it:mnch better than anjH;hing they.'had'yet'said. r People. thought they would get through their trouble and pain here before they' died, and hereafter. would only have enjoyment? and 'idleness.. After a few thousand -years doing nothing would get monotonous. , .That ..was not - the. ideal of .the'future'. 'As we - rose in, the scale of existencpij we should learh;;tb; work. and suffer, for. others..