Mr. Seward's Religious Views

A correspondent of the New York Ilcnibl writing from Auburn, says : The religious views of Mr. Seward are quito i topic tbr discussion just now, and 11 ihat connection it may bo propor to _fiv! the hnilil roiiders the exporien ce of one of his most intímate olerioal friendo, who says tliat Governor Seward firmly iclii:v.'l tli" doctrine of the immortality of' tho soul or spirit and of i ta ultímate reunión with gome forni of immortalized iody after tho interval of separation alled death, aocofding to the intimatione ontained in the fiftoenth chaptev of it. Paul's First lípistlo to tbe Corinthiaus. t v;is bis manner of expressinghis ideas upon tho subjoct to say that thero is not any real deatli : tli.it the lifo with whioh a human being is invested at his birth is tn rniauiitioii trom the Deity and is ininortal ; that t.'ic lirst clay body in which t is tabernacled wears out and perjshes; hat the spiritual :: continúes to exist hencefomard in a disetnbodied state nuil tin: ocourrenoe of tho greatest of all ,he marvels, thegreatoonsummaton, viz: be resurrection and rehabitation of th loily, ita union again in somo form with the life or spirit, and the creation of a lew heaven and a new earth, when man isoends to a higher splicre of existence. Iencc it was his hAbit to apeak of what vp cali death as a temporaiy sleep "f the ody, and of the future state, so called, of ,ho eonl or spirit as the TWO FUTÍ RE 8TATBS OF E3JSTENCE. TIn' ürst time the Governor iiiontioued ïis views at lengtb upon this subject was at ÜiO burial ou Fort Hill, of Judge Miler. " I ïis dust tnerely sleeps there tompovaily," he remarked ; " but the Judge hirnelf is still alivfr" Then, in a measured ml viry isniü i'ssivr m;i imnr ho repeatud i few linas i'röni the " Hymn to Death." " Such," he eontinued, "is the doctrine, li; falth and thé ok of tlio Christian eligion. It is the appointed destiny of oan." In the month of Juno of 1860, when he sertftn was preparing tho grave on ?ot Ilill for Sire. Seward, thé Govornor vent thorei in ouinpany with Baron Stockel, General Hancock and Dr. Xoris, to give the required directions, and át for i whüo with thém upon a rustic eat 01 1 the groiuidi when tho Baron renarked that he was unable to reali.e the ao1 thaf Mrg. Seward was dead. "Siie is not," replied tho Governor, she süll live. Khe still lires in the ■ n. ilion which the church stylcs the 'phioc of departed spirits.' Thero is m such liin.' as l!ic death of the soul of life. - f is the body alone which sleeps, and 'nat only for fi liinited but unrevealed (■Mson. S vee read and so we believo." 'That.' retnrned the Baron, " i:; a very omfortabló reflection." "It is not only a comfortablo reiloc ion," eontinued thn öovernor, "but it is lui conaolation affordcd by an enlightnrd view of the Christian rclipjion." Tho samo was advanced by the (iovor- or at tho time of the burial by the siilr; f her mother of his daughtez Francos.