We never found a tribe anywhere in the world, never found one tribe, but what believed in life after death. Every man dies. Our scientists talk about the end of the world and the possibility of the destruction of civilization. Just one wrong move by some of our diplomats could plunge us all into eternity by intercontinental missiles and hydrogen bombs. When we read about the death rate on our highways, the death rate by cancer and heart disease, none of us here tonight knows whether or not we are going to be alive tomorrow.
Life is the most uncertain thing in all the world.
We never know when our moment is coming. One-fourth of this audience will be dead ten years from now if the law of averages holds out. Ten years from now, in 1968, one out of every four people in this audience will be dead. Life is weak, life is short. The materialist says that it is the end, that there is nothing after death.