Arizona republican., 1899-04-02
EPISCOPAL.

believer would be content to say witt
 St. Paul. I believe in it because "Jesu>
 Christ has brought life and immortal
 ity to light through the gospel. Lord
 Tennyson said, none too strongly, ''ThC
 cardinal point of Christianity is the
 life after dearh." And some one else
 has well s.uid, Death is not the end
 but only an event of life" The Chris
 tian belief has the double sanction, first
 of our Lords acceptance of the immor-
 tality of the soul as an axiom of hu-
 manity; and then, of his fulfilment of
 the old instinct by tha revelation Ot
 the eternal life of the entire man, the
 glorifed immortal soul in a glorified
 immortal body. q believe in the res
 urrection of the body; I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come"
 Before this and behind it, belief in
 immortality is the instinct of the hu-
 man race. It is demanded alike by
 the analogies of nature and the logic of all true philosophy. Any theory of existence which Omits belief i'll inl-
 mortality makes of life a mere chaos of uncompleted underta kings, unsatis- fled desires, unrealized aspirations, un- rewarded service, and unrighted wrongs 1t reduces the human soul to a lower materiaism than that of the imperishable atoms of matter which science recognizes as indestructible and continuous, although subject to per petual change.-By the Right Rev William Croswell Doane, D. D.. IL. D.. Bishop of Albany, Albany, N. Y.
 UNITARIAN.
 Easter morning does not prove mans immortality. It asserts it. In the uni versal resurrection from the night of winter, as life returns which has been sleeping or shrouded, it asserts mans communion and companionship with the God who is Life, and declares that man who is child of God cannot die Christ takes from first to last the ground that as he is the Son of God we are Gods sons and daughters, shar- ing the infinite life; that they who truly live can never die. Because ] live ye shall live also.''
 The great event of history is in the great miracle of life-the victory of lifs over death. It is ours to enter into the victory. Christ not only comes that men may have life, but that they may have it more abundantly; he makes their life so large and full that they know it does not end with the physi. cal accident of death.
 It is little thing in comparison tc believe in immortality The great thing is to live as an immortal" How does this surety of eternity affect daily life? The lesson of Easter for you anC me will be learned if we covenant anew today to live the life of the living chfi- dren of living God.-By the Rev. Ed ward Everett Hale, D. D., Boston, Mass PRESBYTERIAN. I
 The conception of the future 7ifC rests upon the assurances of the divine Word and upon Christian conscious ness. Is there no rest which may meet our dlvinely inspired aspirations? I. man, at his best-when his thought am directions go out after holiness ana heaven-a delusion? Can it be true that "a soul that's born of God" i mCcked and doomed to bitter disaD- polntment-its expectations vain and 
 Just as we should not hesitate to sail | forth from secure harbors mon 2 | trackless ocean, in expectation of | reaching another continent of which | we nave heard, so in the supreme jour 1 ney we accept the statements of the i son of Man concerning heaven and the | course thlther. Christ promises inn mortality; from the first hour of his pupIlc ministry to the last he was en- gagged in an endeavOr to persuade men that death does not end all. |
 mat spiritual life whose expansior IS to continue for ever. comes to inc nour ot death as the heir reaches his or the scholar his day of sfaouatlon. Life is still real and earn 5st. New responsibilities announce themselves. Beyond the material and 'lslDle, this mortal puts on inrnorfal- IS-[by the Rev Henry M Booth, D. J., LAL. D., late president Auburn Tbao- og1cal Seminary, Auburn. N Cna- easeu since symposium was arranged.)
 DISCIPLES OF CHRIST.
 An inherent love of Ifs is part of our 'rlglnaI endowment and belongs to the ace; It IS too strong and too far edchlng to be satisfied with an exist nee or a few days CT years Immor- ality alone is adequate to explain this InlVeTsaI craVing-the very idea re- uires corresponding realitv-eIse ,ve ave been shocked in our constitution { 'urely we have not beer. made in order o be duped Agaln, immortality is necessary to ne completion of the powers and ener- les Wn1ch have been implanted within l UT nature. Our lOngings, hopes. in { lnatlons. aspirations, can give no ac- ount Of themselves and are thirds i 'lth broken wings" unless there be a { lture life where fulfilment is possible With the proven fact of the greas l eIhonstratlOn-the resurrection of our l ord from the dead-comes an assur- | nee of immortality which enables us declare: We know that we have t ulidlng of God" Aside from the l argument, we can say in the I 'ords or another: immortality is T { alth CT humanity, a belief of the race. { T ne or the great cardinal convictions the world. It was not born of ar ument' It will not perish by argument r ike the faith in God. it has it's root in le primeval instincts, the original soa1l 7 human nature. By the Rev. Ed . ara Lindsay Powell, D. D., pasto: of ' irst Christian church T,ouisVi1Io K U