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For which DO claim of originality is set up, bht which has been collated, ampli­ fied, and illustrated by facts and figures from various sources that seemed to afford warrant of help to the author. [CONCLUDED.] Subject--God, the Absolute Reality, and the Souls of Ilis Creatures aa They Relate to Him and His Eternity. It may indeed stumble us as the great­ est problem of all, to conceive how the life and being in us is rooted and ground­ ed in the Eternal Being. While we know, and can know so little, where the Divine ends and the human begins, where they are identical, and where they only ap­ proximate, we may consider that the di­ vine energy like the electric forces of our being, or the electric currents in the air, are conning and going all the while, and we no more live b.v the life that came to us yesterday, than we see by the light that came to us yesterday. We see by the light that comes to us'atflliMtant. Nothing can truly liv<> only Hod. Through, and J>y in all things exist fromjfionif Is not this the meanfto of Hiin we live, and move, being"? Our life is included in lli and His being comprises our own must exchange the idea somewhat of the presence of all things to God, for that of the presence of all things in God; and then of the presence of God in all things. Ours, as seems very evident, is not an independent existence, for we do not exist at all onlv as we exist in the Eternally Existing One, as a part of the underived source of all being and life, from whom all has proceeded, and to whom all is be­ ing held and drawn. The question of an eternal existence is a very different one from that of an independent existence. We must be careful to mark the distinc­ tion here. Everything may be eternal in God, in the prima!, anderljing essence of it, its germinal prioAples. We ourselves, as we may conclude§Bxisted in a certain sense in Adam, iu sa^ie kind ofembryotic or primordial being, as all the planets existed at one time in the sun, and were thrown off from thence, or as ia some­ times said, all the oaks existed in that first acorn, or all the acorns in that first oak. And even before that we existed in God, and sprang from H'tn And hence in tracing the genealogy of Christ, as also the origin of man, by one of the evangelists, we are carried back to Adam and to God, as in the words where it is said "W hich,was the son of Enos, which was the son of iSeth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God. The common belief that souls began to be at the birth of these bodies, or when ushered into this world, is by no means so self-evident as might seem at first thought. It is no fatal objection to our having jre-existed, 1Hat we are not re- membering any frev.^f !if», for w» are in a condition to view objects chiefly by the aid of our natural senses. And be­ sides we are aware that in our sleeping momenta our earthly plans are all for­ gotten. The things of yesterday's ex­ perience or a dream of the previous night, may be effaced from our remembrance beyond recall in this mortal state. It is not so lodged iu the dulled senses as to give it the distinctness necessary for pre­ serving the record of it. It is the same in magnetism, and in much of our absent mindedness, that things are let go, not to seem to have after recognition. And yet there have been those who professed to remeber a former existence. We can be certified of any number of su^fcj ca^es, of places and scenes lying distinct in the mind as of some reacted scene of a drama which had passed before them. Our souls beginning to be iu these bodies is most surely the beginning of our earthly life, but»who shall say that we had no being whatever till we lighted upon this shore, and began to live here. There are any number of souls that never have been born into this world Some of them will not be born for thous­ ands of years, and others will never be born at all. They are waiting, it may be, for their turn to come to tuke upon themselves the form of human bodi< s, and if the conditions shall never be com­ plied with, their turn never will come, and they will lose or gain it may be, whatever was to be developed for them out of this stem of mortality. But that is no loss necessarily of life in the soul. It may not be a loss of enjoyment at all. It may be a gain possibly in some in­ stances. This life at best is but a brief part of our eternal existence. It is only a journey in which we may be considered away from home. TheScriptures declare that "we are strangers and pilgrims on the earth." Who does not remember the old couplet-- "We ar > traveling thro' this vale of tears, To reach a hotter world beyond." In some respects it is a vale of tears, and some of the ancients affirmed that the most fortunate thing that could have befallen a man, was never to have been born into this world. Job and Jeremiah both pronounced maledictions on the day in which they were born. And the Savior said of Judas, "It were good for that man if he had not been born." The most desirable thing for some persons might be, not to be born at all into this world, and the next most desirable thing, to die as soon as they are born, for they seem born to trouble as the sparks fly upwards. And what if a soul should never be born into this earthly organism ? Why then it would shoot by us here, and go as a naked soul into the eternal world. God has given us these bodies to live in, to enable us to have a being in the midst of the visible aud sensible things of the world. We are here, that we may (have some kind of bodily life, and some sensi­ ble communication with the things of earth and sense, and to take us out of these bodies, is to take us out of the nat­ ural world altogether. We speak of our going away from earth as dying. And the outward man mav die. The senses may decay. But the inner, spiritual existence of the soul, does not die. That remains unimpaired, and so it is claimed that death is not the termination of the being of the soul, as a soul. It is only the termination of its life in the natural world. Death does this for us. It abol­ ishes our relation to material things, and is the end of life to the person whom we here look upon, and know as man. Or in other words, when our bodies are laid off, we cease to hold intercourse with the external world through the medium of the senses; that is all. We cease to live as men and women, that we may begin to live in our spirit natures. And I will not say but that souls which might appear to us as beginning to be at a given time or period, as they com­ menced their histories with these earthly human bodies, may have existed under previous conditions from eternity: though it is well always to consider that the soul is an effect of God. But that which is purely an effect of something else, may exist co-instantaneously with its cause. I could easily believe a river to have run eternally, if I could persuade myself that the springs supplying it had flowed forever. An everlasting fountain supposes an everlasting flood. If there had always been a sun, there would have been no beginning of daylight, as I can conceive. Of course, with reference to ab­ solute being, and the whole infinity of things, creation can have no beginning and no end. Everything of essential be­ ing has always existed. And the soul of nian having had no beginning, we do not look for it to have an end. The pre-ex- istence of the soul assured, it carries with it the assurance of immortality. We must fix in our minds as a funda­ mental axiom, that matter, as we term niattt r, is never anything but an effect oi which some spiritual force is the originat­ ing and governing cause. There is no such thing as cabusati n in nature. God as the great First Cause, has developed ature as an effect, and has been engaged - ' "1 eternity to sustain and perfect *"e may imagine if we will, fas when God was all, and iprithin Him must have elements, properties istence, as the seeds of innnraM^^B. And taking this view of the mattqq^Ls I do really, creation was, and must have been.. 11 o other than idividualiza- the nn- is of the .-.shaping, under- as ab- Am CRISTY. - ». \ \ .'•?. smm a going out from G tion of finite creat created, Infinite spi' nature of formation? or fashioning. I thi stand that there is solute creation; 1 mean the absolute beginning We vnust get rid of that osophically impossible in of things, that something sfhJ of nothing. It implies a pi tion in terms. Has any one evi to ask himself how much no' would take to make the least im something. I am sure that I do lieve in creation in any such sense, not believe there is any such word mately existing anywhere in the peh? of language. By what evidence can proved that ever anything has been cry ated in the strict meaning of creation, o can be destroyed in the real sense of de- struclion ? Why should we conclude that there is a single particle more or less oi substance to-day than there was at the very commencement of creation, or that there ever can be a particle more or lass? The original of Scripture does not beai out the sense of producing from nothing, but of producing from something, from pre-existing materials, or elementary substances. The Bible says, "In the be­ ginning, God created the heavens and tin earth," but it does not say out of noth ing. It says, "The things which are seen were not made from the things which do appear"; were not made of visible sub stances, for things mean substances And of what, then, were they made 'i , Why, of the things which do not appear, the visible from the invisible, the tempor­ al from the eternal. Every possible form of matter is subject to change, to a be ginning and ending, but in all this round of endless change no one atom of matter is ever lost. It is incapable of being re­ duced to nothing, for such a thing is un­ thinkable. And how else, then, but that God cre­ ated from His Own fulness, evolved the illimitable universe from Himself? H< must have made things out of His OWL nuture, or from materials existing co- eterually with Himself. i$ut not the lat­ ter, for there are not two Eternals, two Infinites, but one Infinite. It is univer­ sally agreed, by all men of thought ana reflection, that the substance of every­ thing which we see produced wasexisting before, and is only brought together in that form and order which renders it tht object of our notice. If 1 find the object* in my room covered with dust, I shall not thereupon think the dust a new produc­ tion, but that it was flying about in the air before 1 perceived it, and is now onlj gathered into a density to make it visi­ ble. And in brushing it off 1 shall not suppose it absolutely destroyed becaust it has disappeared from my sight. And so when 1 see a tree which 1 remember a few years before to have been a small and tender sapling, there is no need that 1 should imagine the great accession o) sub^ance a new production, for it it- drawn lrom the earth, the air or th< clouds in which it laid dispersed and un­ distinguished. And when the tree, is cut down and committed to the flames, there is no occasion that I should believe it re­ duced to the little substance of ashes lelt behind, but that the rest is dissipated in imperceptible portions the same as before coming together. When anything it- burned up, as the expression is, not one of its particles is ever destroyed 01 changed in its essence. They merely take on new arrngements. We might suppose the earth itself to take fire and burn up, as some persons believe it will in time, and what should we conclude would be left of it all? Would not everything which went into its composition at the beginning be still remaining? Would not all the laws, and all the forces now in the earth be left, and all the substances, too. I must repeat, that no particle is evei lost from the sum of being. Not a single iota is blotted from the great mass or whole. Changed it is, but not annihi­ lated. And have we considered how far this thought of the indestructibe nature of all substance carrics us towards the demonstration of our own immortality of being. Have I need to explain ? If so, 1 will say that the more closely we con­ sider the nature of compounds, the more shall we be convinced that how-much-so- ever, they shall change or vary, there is nothing in them except their order and situation, and the properties arising therefrom; and that they are nothing but collections or numbers of things brought together so as to appear to us in a different manner from what they did previously, for it is inconceivable that nature can ever lessen, or add to the number of substances it has already in store. There never can be one particle more or less of matter, or one particle more or less of mind. The most that can be done with these particles, is to con­ gregate or dissipate, or assort tbem vari­ ously by changing their position with respect to one another. Thus all pro­ duction is no more than this change, or assortment of minute particles impercep­ tible before, in such manner as to render them discernible, or else throwing them into new forms, from which shall result qualities they had not in their former state. And all destruction is no more than an illustration of ust will make it the reader than id. The illustra- ourfcelves are to the riginally sprang, . -- --^- vulet* dissipating them again, or else such a change of their relations as shall divest them of the qualities they had by their first union. Now apply what we have been paying to the soul, as a simple uncompounded existence or substance, and we have the strongest argument that can be madf for its immortality of being. It must con­ tinue forever because it cannot be put outside of the realm of existence. We cannot strike an indissoluble, uncom­ pounded self out of being, for this would be annihilation, of which I have said there is no snch thing, any more than there is such a thing as a something springing out of nothing, or an absolute commencement of being. We might follow the soul through ten thousand transformations, and the very laws of our mental constitution will compel the thought that it is still something, that it is not a non-entity. The whole question therefore at this point, as you will per­ ceive, is, whether the mind is a compound made up of several parts, or a pure simple substance without parts or mix­ ture. All compounded substances can be reduced to their primary elements, mor­ tar to lime, sand and water, and these again to their original elements, water to oxygen and hydrogen, and when anv of these have reached their last analysis there they stop. We can go no further with them. No simple primate, or uu- particled atom, can be reduced to non­ entity. The only real avenue of escape for us here, is to deny that the soul is a reality, that it is anything at all. You may mould or fashion a piece of wax or putty just as you please, for it is a compounded substance, made up of a great number of parts, and you change tne relation of these parts to each other, placing more on one side aud fewer on the other, but that which is simple and indivisible cannot be moulded or fash­ ioned, for it has no multiplicity of parts to be laid over one against the other. It is a single particle, one and no more, and not subject to any change whatever, un­ less you can imagine it capable of anni­ hilation. For myself I am completely satisfied that the soul is a simple elemeut- .ry substance, or we should not find it serving its sameness aud identity in of all possible, surrounding Change cannot be affirmed of institutes our identity, and of it is no less than the ating it out of nothing, absurdity on the very U \nd my sul plainer anything I tion is this Being from what the running strea tire, to the ocean. I ha v tails of Niagara, seeing over them, and thought <b ->o much water ever come fi does it all go to, that it ually replenish itself. Stan of a river, the Mississippi, o Fox, and see its current fi and onward. You call it thi vot see it coming and going. B simply which lies before you t think ? Only in small part can called or considered, as the \ take up in your hand is not the only a little water, a sectional, infin! mal part of the ocean. If it were current between the two banks w you see, that constituted all of the rive it would soon roll on and leave nothing' but a dry bed or channel. And then that would be the last of the river, the Mississippi, the Missouri, the Amazon, the Niugara, the great, the everlasting ialls. No, the river in its true and last­ ing sense is its flowing on and on, con ntautly flowing, from the many little springs, or from the driblets on the hill­ sides, and they fed from the falling of the rains, or the great fountain of the ocean, whence they are ever supplied. And we do not see the river as we might say. Or <ve see it just as we see the ocean, when we *ee so much of it as flows within the range of our narrow vision. In this re­ gard the river is a part of the ocean. Its waters firat emanated from there to the clouds. From thence they were precipi­ tated to the earth in the form of rain and snow, and hail, and sleet. And melting, and sinking away into the subterranean :avities of the earth they soon sought the light in the shape of bubbling springs, and what we see is their hastening homt* to the great bosom of waters as fast as they can go. Now this story of the rivers is, I think, our own story, at least in part. We emanated from God, the infinite ocean of existence. He is the Fatherof our spirits, and however widely we may since have roamed, and whatever the mutatiom- through which we have passed, we may oesure that "We live, and move, and tiave our being in God," and His spirit is uever severed from our spirits. God be­ gets Himself in us, as the azure elements imong the flowers begets itself in the violet. It is with us just as it is with the rivers that receive their waters from the sea, and return them to the sea again. God is the one to whom, as the ultimate end in their final tendency, all things as­ pire, and are to meet in Him as their common centre. And yet in returning to fclim we are not to be absorbed in a manner to be lost in our existence, for jurs is a being which the Great Parent of us all, who created and inspired us, can never let die. Having projected us from Himself into separate existence aud individuality, we go not back again into Him, save to coalesce with His spirit, for that would be to undo His own work, re­ versing the whole plan and order of His creation. Why should God, who takes no steps backward cancel His creation? Has He created anything in vain? Is He not moulding everything to a sacred purpose? Will He not keep to His wise and beautiful design, by which all things are to rise into order and harmony be­ neath the guidance of almighty wisdom, and infinite love? Hats He made man in His own image, to exist and achieve for himself a most glorious destiny, and then withdrawn after a brief period, and said to His creation, "Now go" on without Me?" Might the sun after it had sent forth a system oi stars, setting them in their orbits revoiving around it, say, 'Now ye stars go on in your course, I will withdraw?" Where would be the light, the centre of attraction, the cen- trepetal and centrifugal forces, the laws that now govern tne planets in their movements? All gone with the sun. leaving only ruin, desolation and de­ struction. So, if the Eternal One was to cease His connection with man's spirit­ ual existence and destiny, he too would sink into nothingness No-longer would human souls exist, li^L 1 were taken away; if our sc fj^^|fc>tted out; if Deity had folded to test; then wa could look no farther for soy- thing of bope or blessing. But Wllffc ii rot the fate of any soul that God tap made. And the thought of this turn us trustingly to the future, tbat we may look upon all things with a con­ fiding, hopeful heart, seeing brfehtneos and glory beyond all present darkness, and sunshine and beauty throng every intervening cloud. I am aware that people sometimes talk of being lost in God as the countless water drops are lost in the ocean. Bat are they lost? Is not every smallest aar particted atom of water just as inmffflfllB of losing its identity, or its individoalHgf, as the single grain of sand, rafngHiig with so many of its kind upon the sea­ shore? It might be difficult to find a needle in a hay-stack, but I presume if found it would be no other than a needle. It would not be a hay-stack, nor any part of one. And so when all shall go back to live in God, as they once lived in Him, and were sent out on their mission to this earth sphere, they will still retaia their essential selfhood, the personality of their being, distinct from the personality of God, for He is the Infinite, and we the finite, He is the source, we the nil Willi or issue, He is the great ocean, we the numerous rivers, or numberles drops, or unparticled atoms of water, that go to make up the rivers that flow into the ocean. Here then is the glorious consummation for which we are permitted to bope. It la the end of all things. The souls of men are related to God, as the drops of water are to the ocean, or as the rays of light are to the sun. As the question comes to each one of us. What am I? Whence camel? Whither am I going? Let us consider it, that there is but Just one conclusion. It is this, namely, that as all is of God, so all shall be to Him and for Him. There is every reason in the world for looking upon it in this way. It is the necessary circulation as we may claim. We are tending upward to the abode of the Almighty, to rest In Hlw em­ brace. Yes; as the rivers go to the sea, so all things are tending by a regular and constant providence of the Almighty, to a glorious consummation of heauenly enjoyment in their Creator. Let us consider friends that we are de­ scended from heaven, and thither let ns go whither we derive our origin; and let nothing satisfy us lower than thesuminft of all excellence, an excellence by whirh we shall be united to the Eternal One, by which we shall live in His life, and be happy in His bound lets Being, and His boundless bliss. - yj ^ >" ¥. yv.- tA. J. ' A v Thm Unki. . ^ Travelers on business or bent"on" pfiiilr" ure, invariably visit one of the great cities of the West, if their journey is at all prolonged. Nowhere else can be asm such centres of enterprise and American vim as in Chic&go or Kansas Cltr. and few invite lovers of elegance aad like St. Louis, 'Great West" thefe» are variow ' i s m a d e f r o m ~ ~ ' point of western found more desirable ago & Alton, the great "librae " its unsurpassed cars, courteous train men,*ixst k, and every convenience tkiBt railroading employs t|. hat* safety and comfort. The«osB< ed is unexcelled for beanty <of e vertible garden of tbeeoatf* ure and secure tickets of tte Alton if yon would have » 'curney. 8CDDEN DEATHS. /•*_ Heart disease is by far the moat quent cause of snd den death, «*£*' W: three out of four cases it unsuspected. The symptoms are not stood. These are the right side, shoi tress in side, back pulse, asthma, w< wind in stomach dropsy, oppression, . smothering. Dr. Miles on heart disease free who sells and guarantees equaled New Heart Cure, ative Nervine, which cures headache, sleeplessness, ing, eta It contains no opia Who sells goods the < pays no rent, hires no help, cash for his goods. Call in and prices. Beloit fine pants only.. Beloit heavy mixed %! Men's business suits 9 50 " Cassimere suits. 4 80 Boys'suits ..... 4 00 Boys' two-piece suits 1 00 Knee pants 25c, 35c, 50c, 1 00 Men's Congress Gaiters 91.50, 1 85 Ladies' fine shoes JL 75 A nice line of Groceries. Hundreds of goods at your own E. 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The best Salve in the world for bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rhaom. fc>v*a* sores, Tetter, chapped hands, chmlaine, corns, and all skin eruptions, aad foa> tively cures piles, or no pay renpirat. 1% is guaranteed to give perfect satUhctioa or money refunded. Pri-.v 25 rests §«r box. For sale by Geo. W, Beeiey. PON'T fail to get a sainpk of tfc# SStwr Leaf Tea at John I. Stoqhk IlkM MS eqsal on the market. im ill \ \ " 1. ii