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, 
