Part 6 (1/2)

Man alone being possessed of soul qualities, the question arises, what are the duration of these qualities? We argue that, being an emanation from God, they must of necessity partake of the nature of God, and are therefore indestructible, and eternal But it is objected that when the body dies we see no more ument Does it follow that the soul is extinct? The body was the instruh which the soul h, or by which, a certain class or kind of music is manifested Is the impairment or destruction of the particular piano, a destruction or extinction of that music? Who would thus reason?

The h that piano had an existence in the mind, or soul of sons made on paper by the use of which the music on the piano was produced, or manifested; and it is evident that the impairment or destruction of the piano did not destroy the music What force, then, is there in the claih which the soul manifested itself is dead, the soul itself is dead, or extinct? There are ht in actual life The wonderful, aluish transferred by the artist's brush to canvas, as enduring enius, existed in the rand conception was transferred to canvas If there be any defect in the picture it is usually a defect of execution, not of conception The canvas is but the uish are ue that the destruction of the frail canvas is the destruction of these conceptions?

They existed before they were transferred to canvas; its destruction does not extinguish theain, that soul-attributes are the results of thatin connection with anianization, yet it is clear that he possesses no soul-qualities Besides, if soul-qualities are the result of such life and organization, the manifestation of soul-poould be in exact proportion to the strength of the forces operating to produce this resultant; hence the elephant, in which these forces exist in the larger degree, would give us the grander manifestation of intellectual and iven a brief answer, but full enough to show the logical absurdity of the objection

But it is said that soul-qualities are the active ray matter in the human brain We have already seen that the power to think, to reflect, and to judge of the hts and acts, is not a property of matter None of it, by itself or in combination, possesses this power Wonderful have been the combinations and resultants of the operations of chemists, but life even in its simplest form is beyond their power How much further beyond their power must be the production of the soul-power ray matter has been analyzed and its constituent elements ascertained; none of these elements in its simplest form show any trace of this power How is it possible, then, by combination to produce that of which no trace even existed in the elements? Then too, if this power is resultant, it is a law of chemistry that all resultants may be reduced back to its constituent elements It would indeed be a wonderful achievement to reduce the power to think as a resultant, back to its constituent gases

Again, take the case of a strong and healthyboth ventricles of the heart; this gray matter exists intact in the brain immediately after the extinction of life Decay does not immediately affect its power Does the hts and acts after the extinction of life? If so, then this soul-power exists after death, and the arguuht

Much ht be added by way of illustration, details and further supporting propositions, but it is not deemed necessary

I conclude, then, that the soul is not only a unit with the power ascribed to it, but that it is also an invisible, i This is but the enumeration of the attributes of a spirit or spirit-existence I will not attempt to repeat the reasons found in every text-book of mental philosophy and moral science to show its unity We have seen that it is not matter; yea, more, that it is not a property of matter; therefore that it is i the power to think and reflect, and endoith hest and best evidences of life--it is a spirit-existence As such, what evidence have we that a spirit-existence was ever destroyed? That it exists inwith no evidence of its destruction or of its destructibility, we ought to believe in its iain

I have had a controversy on religious subjects but once in my life I have always desired to avoid such controversies Fixed religious opinions in the ard as sacred To create a doubt, is to loosen thes and to set them hopelessly adrift

After I had left school and was recuperating at entleman of the name of Wellover, who had known me all my life, and as a plain man of the common people, came to my father's house to see me His residence was in as called the Burr Oak Settleis He was a member of the Methodist Church and a very exemplary Christian He seee, you know I have been a believer in the Bible and its doctrines fora course of lectures in the school-house in our settlement He clai to show that the priests have so translated the Bible that it is a deception and a fraud

Now, Orange,” he said, ”I want you to go doith me to listen to one of his lectures, and afterwards to tell me whether his translations are true or not” I said to hiraduate of Greenbury College, Indiana, and is reputed to be a good Greek scholar, and ask hie Cooper's Greek Dictionary, and if he will go, I will also” He departed, and soon returned with Allot into Wellover's carriage and ent to his fine residence, took supper with hi We found a good-sized audience in attendance at the school-house The lecturer, who had passed the e in life, stated in his introductory remarks that he would pursue the same course as theretofore, and show, by reference to the Greek and Latin languages, how the priests had translated the Scriptures; sometimes correctly, but in most cases, where their interests were involved, so as to create a dismal terror in the present, and perpetuate by fear, their power in the future He said that if there were any present acquainted with these languages, he would be glad, if he made an incorrect statement, to be interrupted, and if the statement was incorrect he would correct it He denied the existence of a God and the iion, on account of its doctrine of hate and vengeance, made men crazy I interrupted, and asked him as the proof of the last statement; he said the proof was ion, of God, immortality and hell, after they beca that I had heard men babble of snakes in their boots, snakes in the bed and snakes everywhere in the roo to do with their nized and efficient cause He said: ”Don't atte man,” and I took my seat He further declared that if man were immortal, beasts were also, for the Romans had used the word ”animus” indiscriminately as to both, and that the priests had translated ”animus” to mean intellect and as called by theht he was mistaken He rather uncourteously asked me what I knew about Latin I told hie of it and that the Romans used the word ”mens” from which we derived our word mind, nify the soul of man; and did not use the word ”ani I read to him and to the audience from the Dictionary the definitions of ”aniuage, and he and Allman had a spirited and sharp and somewhat personal dispute, about some Greek or pretended Greek word The controversy showed that he had no knowledge, or only a very li about He said, after the wrangle with Allman was ended, that he had been interrupted somen from town, that he would not proceed with his lecture on that evening, but would close by telling his experience He said that he had been a hteen years--nine years in the Methodist Church, and nine years in the Christian or Campbellite Church

He divided all ministers into two classes--knaves and fools I interrupted hiain and asked hihteen years and classed all ed to He hesitated ato the class of fools” ”Then,” I said, ”that confession proves the Bible to be true, for it says, 'the fool hath said in his heart, ”there is no God”'” Thedissolved, and he lectured no e of the Greek and Latin languages was a deception and fraud

Indians and Their Custo away, and their custo with theer in dim tradition For over fifty-five years I have been in close contact with on, Washi+ngton, British Columbia and California and I have taken considerable interest in the study of their characteristics I have already stated that the Indian is an impassive stoic If he has any huer, never displayed in his countenance When angry, his countenance becomes fixed, sullen, er, but silently nurses his wrath to keep it warm He has no wit, but has a keen sense of the ludicrous, soent sarcaseneral rule He reasons from surface indications and has a keen perception of the absurd, or what he considers such I have given one illustration in the narration of R's civilizing efforts It is stated that an Indian chief said to General Isaac I Stevens, in one of his treaty conventions, ”We and our fathers have always possessed this country We have no objections to the whites co it with us The country is ours Why do the whites always urge the Indian to go upon reservations? The Indian never tells the whites that they o on reservations” On my return from Colville in 1855 I met an Indian with a fine mare I asked him if he would sell her to me ”Yes,” he said, ”you may have her for fifteen dollars” I had with , and I offered to trade hi for his rass was stiff with hoar frost He had nothing on hi or wraps, with the exception of a thin calico shi+rt I told him that he needed these blankets and clothes to keep him warm I asked him if he was not cold He answered in the Yankee style by asking me if my face was cold I told him ”No” ”Well,” says he, ”I ah and extended systeoes, was spoken on this Coast It was an invention of the Hudson Bay Coenerally froon and Washi+ngton and British Colureat distance It was also spoken and understood by the pioneers, settlers and trappers through all this vast region It was Spartan in some of its laconisms As an illustration: I was appointed by the Court, in the trial of a crion, for the defense of three Indians on the charge of grand larceny They were indicted for horse-stealing The proof against them was clear and satisfactory I labored to reduce the offense frorand to petit larceny, and I succeeded, for the jury brought in a verdict of ”guilty of petit larceny” The Court sentenced them to three months'

imprisonment each, in the county jail When their time expired, the sheriff opened the doors and told the, they went to the further end of a long, narrow hall, and two of theainst the wall The sheriff cao with me over to the jail I can't o” I went over with hion, or Esperanto, that they had paid the debt they owed to the whites and that they were free to go to their homes to see their fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters and friends The center man--the oldest of the three--slowly arose and very e: ”Halo ma interpretedto do, we have plenty to eat, we think it very good, ill not go” We had to drive them out of the jail and into the road on their way ho on the philosophy of such punishet Sound I had heard of a cultus potlatch A potlatch is the giving-away of all of our earthly possessions without any hope or expectation of any return, either in kind or value There was an Indian on the Sound known by the whites as Indian Jim Jim had a wonderful ability to accuan, or Rockefeller He was an expert gambler and trader, and very industrious withal He usually worked at the mills, where many other Indians were employed, and he not only saved the a, much of the money earned by the other Indians, and much of that earned by the white laborers This money he invested in blankets--usually at Victoria Soed into fifty and twenty-five cent pieces He also purchased quite a quantity of calico and Indian trinkets When he had secured a large accuave a potlatch The one I attended was held on the tide-flats south of Seattle As the time approached,to the potlatch Ji-day of the potlatch I told hiht paddle-men to take me to the potlatch So I went in style, I witnessed the closing cereive every one in attendance, a blanket, or piece of audy calico, beads or other trinkets

He even took off a pretty good suit of clothes that he was accusto an old suit for them He accompanied me to the city on abond; you have no clothes to wear, no provisions to eat, and no et some more

He said it was all the same as that of the whites, but it was much better than the white man's potlatch He said that whenever he met his friends he could see in their countenance a pleasant light He also gave me to understand that it made a sort of nobleman of him But he said when the white man died his childrendead he could not see in their countenances that light arising froht possibly that Jiood deal of truth in it

In Memoriam

James A Garfield was elected President of the United States of Aurated on the 4th of March, 1881; was shot and mortally wounded on the 2nd day of July, 1881; and was reered until Septereat sorrow of a waiting, hopeful and sympathetic Nation No death in our history, save possibly that of Lincoln, so generally and profoundly filled the hearts of the American people with sorrow as did the death of Garfield After its announce out the dark emblems of sorrow

September 27th was appointed Me was called in Seattle at the old Pavilion Honorable Roger S Greene was elected chair, and he was to act as such on Mee H Watson and Honorable William H White were invited to deliver at that time addresses on the character and public career of the fallen statesman

On the appointed day an audience of over four thousand people assembled in front of and on each side of the west end of the old Occidental Hotel The officers of the day and the speakers occupied the first balcony of the hotel The exercises were appropriately opened with prayer by Rev Ellis Honorable Roger S Greene made a brief but earnest and i coe:

”We shall hear from one to-day who can occupy an appreciative standpoint and speak of the departed President with more than common sympathy for his public purposes and deeds

”Yetto say You seek one of yourselves to speak for you; one who not only, like the lamented dead, thinks as the people think and feels as the people feel, but one who belongs to this local community and who shares our own peculiar shade of sorrow

”Such an one is here He is a man skilled in the use of words, a man identified with yourselves, a man experienced and accomplished in public and national affairs, a man personally acquainted with James A Garfield