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. The scientist says that science is organized knowledge, and knowledge is of the things we see. Of the things that are unseen, science knows nothing and has at present no means of knowing anything. We cannot tell, we do not know which is the greatest blessing, life or death. We cannot say death is not good.