A Future Life.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2523, 6 February 1877, Page 3

A Future Life.

All arguments,,a*est£\be taken, not so much as proofs dfa^l^itfire life as proof of man's resolutipn vtpjiojd^ Jihat ,doctrine. They are ihadequate_to demonstrate its HoundneSf,>butt?aiii^ly:;JufficiMtßtb show that'the/belief being in man's mind (he knows not" now nbr' whetice), ,%&' is d'etWnffi^MSWW^W 1 rf^ i -ftPW^, ( to,aqcou j n^ for it,^anxibus to -justify dt; ■ ErronePuslyt .conceding tKat"i!°Btu§f!b^ k -product; of reason, he.diligently loolf:^ jiipquljtp.^iscoTeeqthej itpgicalsproeessfes, which hatve generateaii^'-aidi clings to:thd"shailoweai: cirtidider lhari-; luAretfd&f '.'(as 1 k he; cpncejiif egj, ; j^hejtrnj <Je^ ( ds .ofJtyjs lai.t n^,..,, , ,,; , MeoT^athiiifC .WlieWtoti&e; itha^ ft future existetco is,Jknd:must be, a matter: of intuition, not of inference. The intellect niayJßiii«jtitoi^^fß:bi»t'';iso!iild«iiWvfer''hfc:Te discovered itj and can never prove it-^-tliff s6u£ musi)ahive^e?ealed ;it] ryiHu^t? imd does perpetually reveal it "T^"'~!l^": ■' Thiiltpj^aW^to^nie thb oiily foundation on wMcli^Kltoef^ iegitimatejy'ips^a^jfeasijS |o^h^oge not!&£cefc|*la^ tion^'^O^ftjKeiie^ ipdepe^^n^pi.reajoping^u^ by V *«asp^j^ P ..j'an^gret^ as nft i; 4ogic? can -^ep^Q^irf^'^tSiji^ospunidfiejiStr^or^GOikn b' jripg sfflorei Gthan«negatifiaft?e?idence "to ■■Op < p(^£sq^^'*aTaJ.-hoW^4f3mth>i*!'isim«« plicitj,;^(tenacity p an undpubtiDg faith,' which isneTer granted tothe;''cob'(dtfsi'ods. v of Auh^BtaMdiag^ >>& **-> -10 >w^ mTh« «j% :a !sh|dß *oT db'ttbtMl^ss^^r'^y^dnMetio^ciFa fiituri cSistenee 0 Ba^^b^M^gh"^^^^?. mhl?*endeiiforeHJto'nialie^Ufa easeTtb tdi as'sWfi Mtensibje :andl;logicat f gr,oun,ds for u ,iny.' B bgfie l if., J . .-^•«nph sjh^l i m^fihen^^T.ej hi?Sjc4 S>Jther>ijAtiefl'ptT ing"j^,pspT^:|he:oex^ffe^ ferljl^y^argunientsilwhich^ould-.satisfy lft!ft»o|bj { 'W.hftn^argumeipts were needed, IsiConfegSiithata; chill dismay; has often •trucEvintoiinyi heart; and-a fluctuatiffg darkhefi«"has 'lowered down 'uporf^'riiy creVd? tdilbetdysipited '\vhenilFMja •j^^4dflr'iiife^oy-¥nd;!iridtictioiff^ behiffdflina'opembrers'Qn^rea 'the "s6ul:to ta^e^ounp-with B/ IU '^ UiW '!Oi; m%ms, W^mM i%Mhi^ gained; wip^^^aycia^rtn^^t^^ i^^ssJi^stf^Hftfey^i J%#?!s5 c: oii jjßUflllKJpgicimjWbejgajned v;t: We^cftn tnenjjafl*ordytp be, .lipnest—to give ireaspfl and analysis (aic play-^tO; shrink - from no cplaclusipn/ Ll hqweyer unwelcome to our ■poculatiion*, which they.may force upon us ;, foriflfter. they hare done all they<can to correotiitonecativre^toascertain^wefeel that their function is-critical merely— that our light c<snlesifri>mstsewhere. TherißiS^^'thrfee: se^peciall£>!c>f religious 'beliefi ;¥egarding rwhifehimtmtion (oicin^tmcty t3aiid^|ogic ijlrvarifence 5 of mafi's freewill —and,a future state of existence.'.--If SeliSved' flhVmur^; be* ;believed,3h^'las|; y^ithout the countenance, the two former $h spitj^ of the hostility pf logic. Hence the'beheC|n^th^m ; *is;, most;respluiej and undoufctingf the nearer meia and nations approach iotheinstruetive condition.: Savages never, doubt them {Ksufferers never dqubfc <tn"ern; menrCin the excitement of TehemenUactionanever dbubt themJi It

is tiie ic^uiet, even^tenor of comfortable and refined existence—it is the fireside, thjerHbrary, "the; arm chair: that doubt, that? %aestion, IJthat speak of darkness, that ask fl for .proof.—Greg's Creed, of; Christendom. V ''",-.' '