St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-23

was filed by Rev. William Wilkinson
who in the morning tailed about spirit
ual appearances. He SAID: we may,
if we so will it, dismiss much that is
said and more that is done by the per-
sons who are known to the world by the
name 'spiritualists.' and along with
that much that has been said by our
frieuds of the Roman Catholic church
in regard to supernatural appear
ances and events. But it must be our
care, as Christian men, not to cast away
evidence which will be of great value to
us in our endeavOr to make men und-
stand with power the meaning of the
life which is not bounded by death or
ruled by time.
If there is not a true spiritual life.
which can exist independent of the
body, and if that life is not more in
tenSely real than the one we now have.
by the evidence of sight, then the Bible
is of no value as a teacher of anything
known to man; because, in all its books,
in its prOfOundest philosophy, it bears
the vivid impress of such life, and in
the clearest words it again and again
says that such a life exists.
Is it not a little singular that the
wiSeSt men whose religion is not that
of superstition, and who by preference
have no special love for the old Hebrew
rubricS, and dOgmas, are brought up.
sharp and sure, in the presence of facts
and principles which can only have
their explanation in life such as the
Christian faith declares to be? Today
men of the most restless minds, i'll the
desire to know the secrets
of the past and the state OF
the future, the issues of life
and Of death, say that all the evidence
points to lite after death. The man
who believes this, and he who AYERS
that with him it has passed out of faith
INTO knowledge, is in harmony with the
world; nay, of all the ages. From the
plains of Shinar, from the wild east in
its earliest times. we have testimony to
this foundation article in the creed of
Christian people. There is nc making
sense of half the Bible, and much of the
other half is of little use, if men pass
into the universe and become an I'M
conscious part of it, no matter how use
full, at death. Seeing, then, this is the
case. was it not reasonable thing to
look for proof of it in all times, and why
limit it to past days? If the need
arises, God can--nay, it is hOnoring
him to say He will-bring back from
the dead those or any of them who have
left US. Every Bible student knows
that it is distinctly said the Prophet
Samuel stood before Saul, at the beck
or by the desire he had made known. at
EndOr. There is not i'll all the wonder
full story of the gospel one scene more
graphic than that which tells of the
coming back from the hOary past Of two
of the best known, as they are two of the
most interesting of men-the mighty
Jewish lawgiven Moses, and the rugged
prophet of Carmel, Elijah. The pecu-
lar thing about this is the way they had
each left the world. Moses on NebO
died, no one knows where or how;
Elijah was taken in a whirlwind. No
man knew his place of resting, but at
the oppOrtune time God brought him
back. These two men appeared with
Christ at the TRANSPORTATION, and we
are sure, if we can he sure of any word
spoken by the four Evangelists, that
they are the very men who did appear
with Christ.
In these days of question, dorbt, I'M
rest, it is an imperative duty all men
who love the Bible owe to themselves.
to the church and the world, to pro-
claim in simple words, full of force and
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is the natural; that the spiritual life is
the true one, and that God can, and
that He may, from time to time, show
it, if the interests of men or of truth
demand it. 1t is not by clipping out of
the faiths of ChriStendom all which in
fidels reject or skeptics question that
the work of the church will be adj
vanced. 1t is not by tying to trim our
sails to catch every gale that we shall
bless men or honor God. 1t is by full,
fearless, honest avOwal that the life of
man is immortal; that the dead are not
lost: that they are in the hands
of God; thai Christ is the hope
of the life over the river,
and that in Him are the destinies of
man being worked out. Faith, as we'll
as fever, is contagious, and it is the
man who knows what and why he be-
lieves who is strong for conflict or for
service. The world today stands in need
of such truth as this. The Master has
told you ard me to proclaim it. 1t has
inspired the nobleSt songs, and lOttlest
lives ever lived on earth. 1t is the fit
faith for men who hope to gain heaven.