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Port Perry Star, 23 Jun 1909, p. 6

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] expectel mation too soon, thinking ab ved that the dead 'waiting for it in a state of proba tion, or a sleep, as Bt. Paul uals il; and that all the redeemed would 'enter 'upon it together. * Burely they are right. 'ty is progressing towards some great end, an higher than the "perfecting of separate individnali- ~~ fies. One generation goes on whers ther leaves off, and unfolds tho "divine ideas a little more fully. , Bome day, Wwe may hope, this idea "will be realized in a human soci ety as nearly perfect as the limi tations of ea ermit. -We may reasonably hold that those genera tions which have passed on have not stood still either, and are still goncerned with the work of svilv- ng bumanity, a mighty Whole, one with and in the glorified Christ "Then cometh the end.'"" All jl- fusions, all sense of separateness, will disappear; the material will make way for the spiritual, the phenomenal for the real, and the Siniverse of universes, visible and fnvisible, attain to perfect consi. ous oneness in the eternal hfs of God. This is the New Testament view of the matter seen in the large rspective of our present day nowledge of the vastness of THE UNIVERSAL ORDER. When we come to the question of the survival of individual oconsci- ousness after death we can say no more than that the evidence which would satisfy the ordinary religi- pus mind might fail with the unin- formed by the religious tempera- ment. Nevertheless the lack may bs in the latter rather than the former. 'The plane of spiritual ex- perience is real and is felt by most to be higher than the purely intel .~Jectual, and it is in the plane of spiritual experience that certitude regarding the immortality of: the soul has hitherto generally been at- tained. Evidence that would carry convie- tion by the methods acceptable to were olen Fhe scientific mind would, of course, have to be on the lower plane. I quite admit that such evidence might be of great value as a rein- forcement to spirituality; but it could never be a substitute for: it, or take precedence of it, Btill I think it not improbable that scien- tific psychic investigation will be- fore long manage to 'prove to the satisfaction of the average man the existence of discarnate conscious- : 1f so, I shall rejoice, because 1 beligve the general 'effect of such a demonstration -woild be good. But even so, 1 would rather rely on the instinctive Jeretptions of the highest order o SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE. The othér day a miner wrote to tell me that from time to time when 'he had been in special need of guid- ance in mome particular subject he Has found that subject preached upon from the City Temple pulpit. B¢ often has he had his need 'met in the discussion of questions from the City Temple DDI which he had neithef time nor opportunity gn think out for himself that hébe- 'Jieves the result must be due to 'something more than mere coinci- dence, and 1 have no doubt he is quite right. : ne : His theory of the matter is that minds spiritually en rapport mey influence each other even uncod- 'aciously, like the separate receiv- stations .of Marooni's wireless telegraph apparatus. 2, od true, but "behind all, and the divine lov "Much as the Genuine, The unusual occurrence of a counterfeit coin bringing far more short than the value it was originally in- tended to represent' by its makers took place recently, when a curious Spanish doubloon of Charles IV. of} focated. 0 Even more drendful re Spain, dated 1801, was sold for $60 at a sale of old coins at the Collec. tors' Club in New York. 1 The 'coin' was' of excellent work: manship, and there was really no striking difference between it and the genuine. But instead of be- ing struck in gold it was composed: oi' platinum of the purest quality, which had "been gilded. oThe intrinsic value of the Bpanish doubloon in gold is just over $16. The platinum counterfeit weighs 420 gr., which, at the prevailing' mar- ket rate, would give this piece an intrinsic value of about $17.50. Platinum was a favorite metal with counterfeiters some years ago, when its intrinsic value was about $6.25 or $7.50 an ounce. Many spurious ten-dollar and twenty-dol- lar United States gold pieces were turned out, chiefly composed of this metal. The coins of Great Britain were also tampered = within 'the same manner. Spanish coins have been much counterfeited, perhaps more than the coins of any other cou Even at the present time Sp: 3 redeeming> counterfeit 'five-peseta pieces. These coins' were made by private persont and were equal to the regular Government coins in point. of fineness. and weight, the manufacturers being satisfied with the seigniorage or difference be- tween the face value of the eoin and its value in bullion '&ilver; = Bo difficult are these illegal coins te distinguish from the genuine that the Government has authorized their redemption at bullion value. It is said that but little distinction has been made in Spain: between the regular issues and the counter- feits, the 'two' issues being accept: ea freely everywhere, and it is de- clared that it is notat all unlikely that a fair proportion of the 600,- 000,000 five-peseta pieces héws in re- serve by the Bank of Spain is made up of the counterfeit coin. Some years ago when silver had a much higher value than at pre- sent a counterfeit' Mexican dollar came into~the possession of the United States assayers at the Phila- delphia mint. - They - assayed-the coin and found it to be w in- trinsically about $1.50. It seems thay the mine from which the counter- feiters got : their 'metal produced: silver that was very strong in gold: Thus the forgers lost money by making counterfeits. ) debt "MATUSHEA VOLGA." Melody of Sorrow and Unrest Heard in Prison and Palace. There is an ais.s0 popular in Rns- sin that it is even more familiar than their nations! anthem to, the people of: that . ii mysterious empire. 1 have heard it in all parts of the Czar's dominions, 4 tic Rea to. x even than that: there is the mind | "+l inches once daily. sible for the collapse of these Forged Coins Which are Worth as|' short' while. previous] the mouth of a shaft, ult that thirty-three" ing below were imprison lowed New La! Is ford, 'England, week, 1882. gpared in its conatructic materials used were admif best that money could bi it came down like & of arth falling. on os of dead weight, rig crowded factory builiings, More than 250 wounded $ tricated from the ruins," together with 54 dead bodies. "It was the worst catastrophe - Bradford ever wn, and No pains to elucidate the cause ib; Bub in vain, EGE iE EE Now, however, in view of $he re: cent discovery of earth tides, en: ineers are beginning to see's light, Poveeti ations, carried out. with scientific. intsruments of an extreme delicacy, "have: shown: ~thak the earth's crust, so far from : mobile; as had always b posed, rises and falls over. respon: movement, it is asked, der, hollow shafts? a A SEE THE ADMIRAL AND THE Diplomatic Story in Which a Lion and a Pair of Pistols Figures: A show of force iscoften the best kind of diplomacy. 'A writer in a Patis newspaper tells a story of the { & French Admiral Dupetit-Thouars; who had 'been entrusted with th mission of éxacting Feparatic from an African bey who had in silted a French Consul, As Du- petit-Thousars's demands. were sup= orted by the forceful argument of 18 oaded cannon bey acknoW-1% ledged that he had been too hasty ite and proffered profuse apologies. He even invited the Admiral to' his table and had a sumptuous repatt i perpared for his guest. The sul warned the Admiral to be © his guard. ; "The bey is inclined to be mali he, "and 'when he cious," said strokes his beard and smiles y may be sure that he is concoctis some mischief:" : "We "shall 'see," was Dupetits Thousars's seni). : reached the bey's palace time. Profuse 'complements and salutations were exchange All at once the Admiral's foot net t ouars' did but called Ais dragoman, "My pistols," was all he said. ~The servant saluted, retired brought back § pistols on dmiral

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