REV. GEORGE BROWN.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3746, 29 December 1880, Page 2

REV. GEORGE BROWN.

Sir,-Mr*Mlfrir U* lecfrrer. appear* to base immortality, of the soul tolojr upon the resurrection of the body .and jf there is no resurrection of thubody tfcer« '" is no immortality. I wonder if be eaftaot , •oe the difficulty in the way of thiajuftiotr. -~ Suppose the body hat bften^^a^adf*^^ of years, and during thai tUBe" it has formed part of a many. (liiereqjLbodiei, each one of them at ■ the_ jriwiiiMeUon cannot possibly hare tbe mom nutter or body; that is a phy»i#«l impoetibility. Then, again, it is.well, known thaf>*r bodies are continually pasting throoja a change, gi™ off old, worn-out material, and renewedfby new nutter, so that in lets, than seven years we get* •embody. When one man Urea untiL.he ha^feM eight or ten different bodies, wbiph of > v those bodies will hare to 'j^stfMhgiM. Surely not tbe worst one—that is tht but old body. The only resurrection that is. possible is that one giren by SffedMbocgt. „ and the Spiritualists—that then/is no. such thing as death ; that the soil or spirit that is in the body makes the body lire, and that never dies, but at what is called death the spirit throws off in. A large quantity what it has been doing all' , through life in small quantities, aatTtkft real resurrection takes place immediately after death by the spirit being clothed by- - a spiritual body. We have no conception -' of a something passing off into nothing. When, coal or wood is burned not one particle of it is lost—it only goes thwgh a change; and, if it be admitted that the , ; spirit of man is something, then it iti 'impossible for that something to pail osf into nothing, and it would be a strann position to take that the soul of ats>lsj nothing when it is the strongest fofea im- v existence, and produces the grtiitil?* effect. Ido not make these remarks in 1 captious spirit, but from a strong detjijfj to know the truth on this aU-importsJjtf < subject.—-! am, &c., ' ■*■..';' ;.