Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1880 — The Immortality of the Soul. [ARTICLE]

The Immortality of the Soul.

in the different ages these has been nothing about which the minds of men havs been more agreed than in regard to these two things, the existence of a God, or Divine Ruler, and the existence in ■««« of a soul that is to live forever. Like a ship from a far distant shore, that has traveled over boisterous seas aud through storms which have sunken nearly all the other vessels that started from toe some place at the same time, the belief ia these two things has come down to ns from the very cradle of the hnman race, over-riding and swerving the opposition it has encountered along the way. As a.bow in the hands of the archer may be bent ever so mucb, and yet if not broken it will return to its former shape when the pressure is removed; as a ship may be driven from its course under the stress of a'stormy wind, and yet if well handled and uninjured it will be brought back to the right seourse wheii the wind anbsides; as the trees of the forest may be made to sway to and fro during a tempest, and yet when the commotion ceases they will resume their former positions; so the hnman mind under strong pressure or subtle argument may be shaken and made to away from the right position for a time, and yet after a see son, in calmer moments, when circumstances permit it to act wisely and naturally, it will not fail to come bock to a recognition of those truths white are supported by sufficient evidence. Thus it has been in the past in regard to the immortality of the soul, and thus doubtless it wiU be in the ftitnre. Under certain influences many may be led to doubt or to deny tikis important truth, sad yet we may feel confident that the general coarse of hnmin thought on this subject will always be in abont the same direction, the deviations being slight and temporary.