SOUL AND BODY.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5042, 11 March 1885, Page 3

SOUL AND BODY.

(To the Editor of the Evbnino Stab.)

Sib,—Those who can read the signs of the times, must see that public opinion is drifting to two points, namely, Materialism and Spiritualism, and both parties have great thinkers on their respective sides, so that a great deal is said by them both ; and both are inclined to leave the old Theology to its fate as being so. very absurd, with ils immortal God dying as n vicarious sacrifice to pacify the elder God, ti lubject that you cannot reason upon. The Materialist and the Spiritualist both have a great deal of reason on both sides, but I think the Spiritualists have the best side of it; I think the evidence that man has a dual nature is overwhelming, and that somnambulism and clair. voyance ought to have set this question at rest\ long ago, as they, prove that man can see and hear without the bodily organs, which I could fill this letter with facts to proved If \so, what is it that hears and sees, if it is not the spirit?—the phenomena the Spiritualists are meeting with all over the world cannot be accounted for in any other way. We might make a mistake in'some things without any very serious consequences, but not so if we make a mistake in not knowing what we are ; this mistake might lead to our lives being one great blunder from beginning to end. One great argu> ment the Materialist makes use of is that you cannot see the soul; if there is such a thing, show it to us, they say; but if this argument were good, it is equally so •gainst all tbe invisible tubtle forces that are known to ,exist. not because we see them, but by tbe effects produced, those such as magnetism, electricity, gravitation, chemical affinity, and vegetable life, none of those things were ever seen.and yet we know they exist. Whatever our opinions are, they can uever alter facts, but our opinions may tery much affect us. Upon this truth, viz.: that man has a dual nature —body and soul,—-rests so many truths; ibis- helps to solve many of the difficult problems of life. Suffering and what is called evil has a mission, and is for a grand purpose, but if this life is all, then everything is in & fog and mist. That w/e should be here for a short time to endure suffering and pain, and death to be the end] But death is not tbe end, but the beginning; not the eternal night, but the beginning of eternal day; It is not the greatest curse, bmt the greatest blessing. All earthly acquirements are uncertain for a day, but spiritual riches are real and endure for ever. .There is something great and grand in the thought that man is on the line of progress that stretches out into that everlasting future, and not only for one individual here and there, who has got into God's favor because he happens to have the right belief, but for tbe whole human race/That truth, goodness, and God must finally triumph over ignorance, falsehood, jmd wickedness.—l amV&c., ■"'■;■■ Uncle JohNi