Some people are born so spiritual-minded that the proper adjustment of
the several functions pertaining to the moral or religious nature stand
clearly defined. Their immortality is never doubted, their faith in
the unseen never obscured by clouds of passion, or dimmed by pressure
of material necessities. These are the beacon lights in the world's
progress. These are the mariners to whom has been given a sure guide
and compass. The others are those who have little or no perception
beyond what is seen to befall animal life, and their growth into a
finer possibility must be slow and tedious. It is in fact necessary
that many should "rise from the dead" and jam tables and chairs and
things around their apartments, ere they can fancy the possibility of
any existence separate from this material life.
The most abominable of all egotisms is that which forever studies to
limit the possibilities of the Creator, to announce firmly that there
is no further consciousness, and no need for human faculties after this
life is ended. The most dignified attitude would be to give him the
benefit of the doubt, to admit that He has the power to continue, and
remould, and readjust through all time and all eternity. But this is
not a class of subjects which can be settled by logic. It is based
upon a conviction of the inner soul, and the most that anyone can do is
to place himself as nearly as possible in harmony with some one law,
and this will form a center around which a perception of more shall
come, and revolve around it grandly and in perfect time, thus
completing the rounding out--the fullness--of the character of the
individual man or woman.