"NOTHING PERISHES"

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 306, 31 December 1907, Page 4

"NOTHING PERISHES"

ail! ULIVJ.U UHIUE UN XllK i.U.vIUJUAU 11. Sir Uliver Lodge delivered a remarkante aduress al raw .Memorial Jlali, ko»U'jii, on "llie iuimuriality oi tue Soul. 'Miit lirst simple trum Uia', must bi insisted on," lit said, "is tlie common place, but often ignored, and even demod, tact that there is nothing immortal or persistent about the body except I lit iiiiueriui alums ol wiucti it is *■ posed. "Any notion (but these same atonic uill at some future date be re-eollecleu ami united with the disassociated auu inimaterial jionion, so as to constitute oitee more tlie complete man us he appeared hero oil oartli, anil who is thereafter to lael lor ever, i= a pagan snj-. i stitioii, thought most unfortunately be Ikved—or at least taught—by one great branch ol the Christian Church. "i want to make the distinct assertion that no really existing thing perishes, but only changes its form. "l'hvsieal science teaches us tbi> clearly enough concerning matter and energy, tlie two great entitles with which it has ' to do. Can life l»e a nonentity that has built up particles of carbon and hydrogen and oxygen into the form of an oak or ail eagle or a man'! "Not so; nor i« it so with memory and love and adoration, nor all the manifold activities which at present strangely interact with matter and appeal to our bodily senses and terrestrial knowledge. "They are not •nothing'; nor shall tliev ever vanish into nothingness or cfase to be. They did not arise with us; they diil not spring into Ijeing. They aiv as eternal as the (todhcad itself, an.! [ in the eternal lieing they shall endure , tor ever."