358 Life and Immortality. 



paper when I came down from my room, anticipated my 

 wishes by bringing it to me. 



There is in the two interesting stories just related a singu- 

 lar aggregation of faculties which are held in man to belong 

 to the immortal, and not to the mortal part of his being. 

 Reason, or the deduction of a concluson from premises, is 

 strikingly exhibited. Then there is the power of forming 

 ideas and communicating them to man, and the capability 

 of understanding man's language, and even of anticipating 

 the wishes of human friends. And lastly, there is the intense 

 love for the master, combined with the power of self-sacrifice, 

 which enabled Lion and Prince to act as they did, while 

 instinct was urging them to take their exercise in the open 

 air, or in the enjoyment of luxurious ease. 



No faculty of the mind gives greater trouble to materialists 

 than Memory. It is that which survives when every particle 

 of the material brain has been repeatedly changed. It is that 

 which more or less deeply receives impressions and retains 

 them through a long series of years. And even when they 

 are apparently forgotten, hidden as it were behind a temporary 

 veil, a passing odor, a dimly-heard sound or a nodding 

 flower may rend the veil asunder in the twinkling of an eye, 

 and scenes long forgotten are reproduced before the memory 

 as vividly as though time had been annihilated Nothing is 

 omitted. There comes up to view a minute and instantaneous 

 insight into every detail, and for a moment we break loose 

 from our fleshy tabernacle, and see and hear with our spiritual 

 and not with our material eyes and ears. Man expects that 

 he shall retain his memory and carry it into the next world. 

 He also expects to recognize in the spiritual world those 

 whom he has loved in this temporal sphere. Memory, there- 

 fore, must be spiritual and eternal ; and wherever it can be 

 found, there exists an immortal spirit. No stronger evidence, 

 apart from Revelation, exists of a future life of man than mem- 

 ory. And if we apply this proof to ourselves, then, in pure 

 justice, we should apply it wherever memory is found. 



