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Show THE fit, 77 m w ,y: )OUUO W Ms SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1916. N, C)l li . ! Xl HERALD-REPUBLICA- tmt. 7 -. I. '. t- 4 -. x .Ox. w If' S- , .xxS - y x i , s w t J t r r i x S5,x , ) sir xxx " VXN . - J. 7 MJlr , t ' f - - S X " X " X w X xx S - - V x - x x " i St, ' , - V V xj - XX 4 i 1 , n y'-- -- X V V v -V. . - "xV , X J - X J v ...... .'i, '' . i .: vvrxV I i y ' ' ' " f; yjf . 1 - , !v yj - rW a fy x x. xj si ... .i xv x " K tyy - . S3 SA y -- l C) fy K--y- 3 ' ? . ,ix xv - t -- A x, J. X J ? i x V-- 4 i ? ? ..orf t vA J - ut i J ends everything, it should end Christianity; for then Christianity is founded upon a delusion. Our. Lord builds his philosophy of life upon the clear conviction that death is but the covered way leading to another form of life. Death is only sleep as seen from the under side; from the upper side it is awakening. THE SPIRITUALISTIC VIEW By George E. Winter Not only do the dead return, but they endeavor to describe the life led by the spirit when it has thrown off the encumbrance of the flesh. The evidence- comes ." through the phenomena of Most find the transition and awakening on the other people side more natural than they had expected. One spirit expressed it as like waking in a strange bedroom when on a holiday. There is no drastic change in the personality. The spirit commences its new life just as it left off hereT - "trance-mediumship- THE THEOSOPHIC VIEW By Mrs. Annie Besant Man is a spiritual intelligence clothed in matter. The conditions of the world in which our consciousness works when outside the physical bodywhether leaving that body in sleep or dead are as various as those of the physical world. The man after death, in his desires and emotions, is the same man as he was before death. Our work then, on the other side of death is the building of conscience and of faculty'out of the experiences gathered during physical life. With these we return to a new earth-lifto make further progress. e, A SCIENTIST'S VIEW By Sir Hiram S. Maxim, C. E., M. E. All the matter that goes to make up our bodies is eternal. The soul, the mind, or the spiritual part, is only a condition of matter. It is not eternal in the same sense that matter is. It has been transmitted to us by our parents, and we are able to transmit to our children; so we live in our descendants. The unfortunates who fail to pass their soul on to the next generation are forever lost; with them death ends all. AN AGNOSTIC PHILOSOPHER'S VIEW By Dr. Max Nordau Death means final extinction of all consciousness and eternal dissolution of what was a personality. What value, what interest can an immortality have for me in which I should no longer remember my past life. In this case it is not me that survives, the immortality of this alien scul is not my immortality and does not concern me in any way. The immortality of the personality is neither conceivable nor desirable. Nothingness is r y W' i fi li m I i0i in r i ii ii r ' " v'vAV 1 yS& x 'K4' ff5xx, hi L If . Roberts, M. A., B. D It is impossible to accept Jesus Christ as an authoritative teacher and to deny a life after death. If death sui:z :yf - ? Av.t? I, i THE CHRISTIAN VIEW ; , Various Answers to the Great Question more consoling. x V 1 4' death what? Every one of us eventually AFTER face death, and this very personal question in-of follows the close of this life always arouses tense interest. "With millions of men today desperately locked in the death grip of the battle fronts of the world's mightiest war, and constantly face to face with the prospects of sudden death, that old problem, as old as life itself, never before was more urgent and acute than it Is at the present day. A few years ago the reply to the question of "what happens after death?" would have been more precise, it Is pointed out, and much more emphatic. Today there seems to be a far les3 tendency among the champions of faith to be dogmatically certain, and there is a far greater tendency By Rev. J. V W , . x if VI r ; ... long-drawn-o- N sVv .1 Actual Descriptions of Heaven, and Many Conflicting Opinions About the Hereafter in New Discus-sion- s of the Great Question. " x if it - , x x - x VV."V xx V ,x . , x XXN " - ii i iamtfMk t , x v's V; - tfWA. XV X X ju- -l x ty ,kL,y i "i"3 -ii i ,x.xxx- -- - ' ' ' i&tt.V'i- - " Till vCv.w M" rY Kaulbach's Remarkable Painting", "The Destruction of Jerusalem," Reflecting the Literal Old Testament View of Heaven and Earth. among the scientists to regard this question as one worthy of scientific treatment. The fact that men hold views of wide diversity on the question of Immortality la plainly indicated by the varying expressions prominently displayed on this page, which were taken from the book entitled "What Happens After Death?" a recent publication of the Funk & Wagnalls Company. It is felt, however, that this very freedom of discussion and variety of expression will prove to be a help rather than a hindrance to all those who want to form their own opinion on a subject necessarily vague, but always vital. i Many Investigators In this field of mystery claim they have Becured conclusive proof that there Is life beyond the grave proof bo clear as almost to amount to scientific certainty and science demands facts. Letters from Heaven Substantiation of this statement is found. It is claimed, in the recent publication of the two following remarkable books: 'Tatience Worth, a Tsychic Mystery," and "Letters from a Living Dead Man." The latter book contains a 'spirit's" wonderful word picture of what heaven is like, and throughout its sequel, "War Letters from a Living Dead Man" two major Ideas seem to dominate: the mystery of good and evil (love and hate) and the brotherhood of man. The two volumes of "Letters from a Living Dead Man," written down by Elsa Barker and published by Mitchell Kennerley of New York city, contain, it is claimed, minute and intimate accounts of life beyond the grave as lived by Judge David P. Hatch, a former judge of the superior court of California, and one of the best known citizens of Los Angeles. His son, Bruce Hatch, a well known mining, enof these messages: "Over gineer of New York city, says I cannot as the thought Is, escape the conclusion whelming to Mrs. Barker, and these letters did dictate that my father world." in another that they tell of his adventures known well a Mr. Casper S. Yost, newspaper man of St. Lou's, recorded the facts regarding "Patience Worth," whir!" lie presents In relation to some phenomena he does not attempt to classify nor explain. It is related that when Mrs. John II. Curran, wife of a former immigration commissioner of Missouri, and Mrs. Emily Grant Hutchings, wife of the secretary of the Tower Grove Park Board of St. Louis, were amusing themselves with a ouija board, this message came to them out of a clear sky: "Many moons ago I lived. Again I come. Patience Worth is my name." Thus began an intimate association with "Patience Worth" that has resulted in a series of "spiritual communications of intellectual vigor and literary quality" that are couched in the quaint English of three or four hundred years ago. These messages are described as consisting of interesting and even brilliant conversation, poems, allegories, short plays, a long mediaeval drama and two novels. The War as Seen in Heaven The claim is made that the "spirit" of Judge Hatch, in writing the "War Letters," makes the reader realize that there is an "astral world" as stated In theosophical writings. Theosophists say that the "astral" world is the world of feeling and desira, and that it is through man's astral, feeling or desire body, made of a tenuous kind of matter invisible to untrained eyes, that he connects with and functions in that world. Mrs. Barker says that the beings described by Judge Hatch are dwellers in the astral world, and that there are also beings of the elements, earth, air. fire and water, soma of whom are amiable and some malicious. The "spirit" of Judge Hatch says that the feelings pt hatred engendered by this great war have made the astral world at this time a very unpleasant place. That even souls seek revenge and suffer is indicated by the following passage from one of the "War Letters": "I have witnessed the soul of a murdered man tearing at a soldier wJio was violating the murdered man's wife, i have seen the soul of a mother wringing her hands as she would have wrung them on earth when her little daughter was being maltreated by brutes who were blind with madness. An old man out here followed a soldier for days until he saw revenge accomplished by means of a bayonet; then as the soul came out he grappled with It again and the two were torn by each other, the soldier not knowing he had left the body and feeling that he was at grips with an enemy etill on earth. Many a time I have clutched with my too tenuous hands a soldier who was about to disgrace himself." Mrs. Barker relates as follows the strange circum stances under which the "spirit" of Judge Hatch, who in life was known to his Intimate friends as "X," caused her to write the remarkable letters: "One night in Paris I was strongly Impelled to take up a pencil and write, though what I was to write about I had no idea. Yielding to the impulse, my hand was seized as if from the outside, and a remarkable message of a personal nature came, followed by the signature of X.' The purport of the message was clear, but the signature puzzled me. The following day I showed this writing to a friend, asking her if she had any idea who X was, and she told me it was Judge Hatch. "Now Judge Hatch 'was G000 miles from Paris, and, as we supposed, living. But a day or two later a letter came to me stating that he had died a few days before I received the automatic message signed X.' "Judge Hatch was not a spiritualist. . I am not myself, and never have "been. Soon after my receipt of the letter stating that Judge Hatch was dead, I was sitting with the friend who had told me who X was, and she asked me i! I would not let him write again if he could. I consented, more to please my friend than from any personal interest. How Messages Were Received "The first message," says Mrs. Barker, "came with pauses and breaks between the sentences, with large and badly formed letters, but quite automatically. The force used was such that my right hand and arm were Jcme the following day. "While writing these letters I was generally in a state of so thaCuntil I read the message over afterward. I had only a vague idea of what it contained. In a few instances I was so near unconsciousness that as I laid down the pencil I had not the remotest Idea of what I had semi-consciousnes- s, written. "The spirit of Judge Hatch told me that his object In writing these letters is primarily 'to strengthen certainty in the fact of the survival of the soul after the bodily change which is called death,' regarding which X' says: " 'There Is nothing to fear in death. It is no harder than a trip to a foreign country. When a man comes out here, the strangers whom he meets seem no more strange than the foreign peoples seem to one who first goes among them. The question, 'Where are you from?' meets with a similar response to that on earth. This is when we meet on the high roads of travel, for there are lanes of travel over here, where souls go up and down as on earth. " . One of the most is found fascinating of "X's"-letterIn the first volume. It is the letter entitled, "Where Time Is Not," and is remarkable for the following description of what heaven actually is like: "I saw a double row of trees, like cypresses, and at the end of this was a long avenue down which I passed in a softly diffused light. As I approached it the light was softer than, moonlight, though clearer. Perhaps the light of the sun would shine as softly if seen through many veils of alabaster. Yet this light seemed to come from nowhere. It simply was. "I saw two beings walking toward me, hand in hand. There was such a look of happiness on their faces as one never sees on the faces of the earth. Only a spirit unconscious of time could look like that. I should say that these so differtwo were man and woman, save that they ent from what you understand by man and woman. They did not look at each other as theywalked; the touch of the hand seemed to make them so much one that the realization of the eyes could have added nothing to their content. Like the light which came from nowhere, they eimply were. chil"A little farther on I saw a group of bright-robedren dancing among the flowers. Hand in hand in a ring ihey danced, and their garments, which were like the petals of flowers,, moved with the rhythm of their dancing limbs. A great joy filled my heart. They, too, were unconscious of time, and might have been dancing there for all eternity. Like the light, and like the lovers who had passed me hand in hand, they were, and that was enough. "I left the avenue of cypresses and stood In a wide plain, encircled by a forest of blossoming trees. The odor3 s dark-toppe- d d . of spring were on the air, and the birds sang. In the centre of the plain a great circular fountain played with the waters, tossing them in the air, whence they descended In feathery spray. An atmosphere of Inexpressible charm was over everything. Here and there in this circular, heaven walked angelic beings, most of whom must some time have been human. Two by two they walked, or in groups, smiling to themselves or at one another. "On earth you often use the word 'peace but compared with the peace of this place the greatest peace on , earth is only turmoil." . flower-scente- d Children in Heaven The "spirit" of Judge Hatch says the children In heaven are very interesting, and that they find it easier to adjust themselves to the changed life than do grown persons. He says: "Very old ' people are Inclined to sleep a great deal, while children come out with great energy, and bring with them the same curiosity that they had in earth life. There are no violent changes. The little ones grow up about a3 gradually and imperceptibly as they would have grown up on earth. "The children are so charming! One young boy, Lionel, Is with me often; he calls me father and seems to enjoy nay society. He would be, I should think, about thirteen years eld, and has been out here some time. He is all interest ' about certain things I have told him about on earth especially aeroplanes, which were not yet very practical when he came out. The boy was an inventor in a prior incarnation, and he came out this time by an accident, . . . ; , he says." Not even in heaven is Judge Hatch permitted to lay aside the duties of his earthly profession, for, he tells how he was called upon to solve the perplexing problem of what should a man in the spirit world do with two "spirit" ; wives: "There are two women here who In life were both married to the same man, though not at the same time. The first woman died, then the man married again, and soon not more than a year or two after the man and his second' wife both came out. The first wife considers herself the man's only wife, and she follows him about everywhere. He is more inclined to the second wife, though feels affection for wife No. 1. He is impatient at what he calls her unreasonableness. Herather told me that he would gladly give up both of them, if he could be left in peace to carry out certain studies in which he Is interested. , . . he-sti-ll The Problem of Two Wives "One day all three of them came to me and propounded their question or, rather. Wife No. 1 propounded it. She said: " 'This man is my husband. Should not, therefore, this other woman go far away and leave him altogether to me?' "I asked Wife No., 2 what she had to say. Her answer was that she would be all alone here but for her husband, and that as she had had him last, he now belonged more to her than to the other. In a flash he memory came to me of those Sadducees who propounded a similar question to Christ, ard I quoted his answer as nearly as I could remember it: that 'when they shall rise from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as they the angels which are in heaven.' "My answer was as much a staggerer for them as their question had been for me, and they went away to think about it. After a while the three came to me again and said that they had been talking things over. Wife No. 1 told me that she had decided to 'let' her husband spend a part of his time with the other woman, if he wanted to." Just how the "needs" of spirits are supplied by the process of "pure thinking," the "spirit" of Judge Hatch Indicates in the following description of how "clothes" are made in heaven: "No two persons are dressed in exactly the same way . many are so eccentrically dressed that their appearance gives variety to the whole. . "My own clothes are, as a rule, similar to those I wore cn earth, though I have as an experiment, when dwelling lives, put on the garments thought on one of my long-pas- t of the period. It is easy to get the clothes one wants here "I saw a woman dressed in Greek costume, and asked her where she got her clothes. She replied that she had made them: 'First I made a pattern In my mind and then the thing became a garment." |