NOT DEATH, BUT CHANGE.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4359, 20 December 1882, Page 2

NOT DEATH, BUT CHANGE.

(To the Editor of the Bf ening Star.)

£ib, —Most of thinking people must have been struck by the appearance of things being so deceiring, by appearing to be what they are not. The earth appears to be larger than the sun, and (he stars Bppear to be small when compared to the earth, and the sun appears to rerolve around the earth. We are not able to find out this deception by sight or appearances, but by reflection and reason. From this we might surmise that we might be deceired by many more things by their appearance—that the reality of life is hid from us by an inrisible reality.,

This is clear in the vegetable world. The invisible life in vegetables is the real cause of the external vegetable world; that there could' not be the outward phenomooa if there was not the invisible principle, life. And when we reflect and think a little we find that death itself is a delusion ; that there is no such thing as death only in appearance. Because the spirit casts off the body at what is called , death is no proof of death, no more than the body continually throwing off the waste matter of the old worn out material all through life; the one is no more death than the other. We know tbatnothing is really lost, only goes through a change. Our real self—that part of us that thinks and reasons—never dies. If matter never perishes surely the noblest parts of us— the intellect and the affections—never perish.. For that which is the greatest force we know of in the universe toperißh would be an exception to all other Known truths; but the fact that man does not die at what is called death is positively known to thousands, and if it was not for right down prejudice it would be known to thousands more ; and if true what can possibly be so comforting to those that have had to part with their dear ones as to know that they have not lost them, that they are not dead, bat alive, and are around them still.—l am, &c,

J. Hobn.