African chiefs were buried with several wives to give them companionship in the future life. The Norsemen who had never seen a Bible would bury horse and armor with many of their warriors so they might fight in the afterlife. And it is a universal phenomenon. I took my work in college in anthropology. 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.