Arizona republican., 1899-04-02
WHY SHOULD I BELIEVE
 IN IMMORTALITY? A0 Easier Symposium: Leaders, Representing Faiths.

1 this natural truth to mankind. The
 dogma of Christian faith, the teaching
 of it's most eminent and saintly dis
 ciples are but witness to the word and
 sanction of God himself. T await the
 resurrection Of the dead and the life
 of the world to come.'
 The soul of man cannot but be i'm
 mortal by it's very essence, being made
 after the image of God, and is by eS-
 sence g. simple, spiritual substance.
 seif-subsisting independent in its ir-
 te,lectual action of the body, and hay
 ing DO part of matter in it; not com pcsite, but simple. What is so by es-
 sence is indestructible and immortal,
 fer it contains within itself nothing ! which can cause death.
 A1c3eOver, there is in the nature of man desire for immortality. 1t is inn
 possible for a natural desire to be in
 vain Every intellectual nature de- sires, naturally, to live forever, not 1 only as a species, but as an individual.
 Intellectual being desires happiness and tends toward it, and that beatitude i which is it's last end, and which can perfect it's being and give to it perfect l peace and quiet. God alone, who is in l fnitely perfect, can do this. So tn" soul tends by it's nature to God, to atcr- | Gity to immortality. Restless hast thou made our hearts, o God, and rest 1 less shall they remain till they rest in i T1nee, says St. Augustine.
 1 The very idea of God bears with ir a | belief in immortality for man. God is ] the beginning and end of all. q am l the Alpha and Omega-the beginning and end" God from the very infinite ] perfection of his nature cannot create 1 and rule but by a well ordained love. But God would not so love his crea- l lures unless he directed all things, even our happiness, to himself as the last end. He alone can be the adequate cad of creation, and all creatures are for lhe manifestation of his glory. "Tne world" says L2ctantius, was made hat we might be born. We are born hat we may know the creator both of he world and of ourselves, viz, God. We know him that we may serve him, l md we serve him that we may receive immortality as the reward of our labor
 Christ declares that man is immortal when he says, ''I will raise him up on she last day" And again, Come ye blessed of my Father, possess the ingdOm prepared fer yCu. The mis- ion of Christ's church is to bring man
 o the happy fruition of this promise. By the Most Reverend John J. Will
 jams, D. D. Archbishop of Boston.
 SWEDENBORGIAN.
 The best evidence Of immortality is
 he revelation of immortality. Science lnows nothing of a spiritual world, |
 hough it leads the mind up to prcb- ems which require it to pOstulate a. spiritual world Rational thought, | however, is unable to do more in the | ,ace of it's own problems than to IS
 
 Bible seers, on the other hand, reveal | : spiritual world seen with spiritual | -enses, touched and opened for the Dur- pose; a world peopled with men and | yOmen Wh0 have passed from earth, | md live in the enjoyment Of every ! actulty and sense and power, though | in spiritual and not in natural bodies. |
 Tradition in all ages, among all peO- ples, confirms this revelation, which | proves it's validity because it persists; and survives in spite of opposition. It explains the phenomenon of life. It explains the facts of consciousness. It satisfies the munitions of the soul It accounts for and jus,ifes the with held completions of life" in this world. Therefore I believe death is the gate to the souls real life; where man lays aside the outer garment of the body and awakes to consciousness in his spiritual body in the spiritual world which is the soul of this world, and in it as the soul is in the body as a cause is in it's effect.-By the Rev. Lewis Pyle Mercer, pastor-general for Illinois, Church Of the New Jerusalem, Chicago.
 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
 The scriptural text-''I am the Way. the Truth, and the Life"-means this: The T Am" self-eXistent, infinite God, s Truth and Life. The way, through Christ, is Divine Science; not death, put the understanding of Life, makes man immortal The lost likeness is lot man. But Science reveals man as Gods likeness, that cannot help being immortal Though the grass seem eth o wither, and the fewer to fade, they 'eappear. Erase the figures which eI- press number, silence the tones of mu 3ic, give to the worms the body called nan, yet the producing, governing Principle lives, and produces, despite he sC-called laws of decadence. If Soul and man unite only for a period, o be separated and brought together again at some uncertain future, in a manner unknown, we are without Ta ional proof of immortality Christian science unfo3ds the immutable, divine I Principle, Life, and the universe-pres- mt and eternal. Losing the finite ense of Spirit brings immortality to ight. Perceiving the true idea of life, we lose all sense of death. and are Ishered into the undying realities of Spirit, namely, Life-nCt obtained of he body incapable of supporting Life. ut of Truth, unfolding it's own inn mortal idea-By the Rev. Mary Baker l. Eddy, discoverer and founder of A Christian Science Concord, N. H.
 CHRISTIAN EVOLUTIONIST
 What I regard as the modern scien- O fife argument for immortality is gv- CT Il at length in The Theology of an At. 1volutionist" All that l can do in r, nswer to your inquiry is to state G rieay here ths conclusion there fBs B