The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-05-20
Communicated.

III al TtCcub ioSuC VI M 1DhNiiNbL
there appeared a communication
giving a scientific disquisition on
the subject Of immortality. The |
difficulty with all such efforts is they
do not make the fact patent and
positive. The mind seeks some
thing that the light of science can
not give-the satisfying evidence OF
its reality Hence, in this direction
it is largely look in the dark.
In the realm OF nature we are IN
structed by its limitations, and the
inference drawn thercfrom, but
none Of these make the fact patent
and positive For revelation of
immortality we must look elsewhere.
In the Christian religion alone is its
certainty revealed. Christ hath
brought life aud Immortality to
light through the gospel, II would
be strange indeed that a religion
that has so much to say about i'm
mortality could give no assurance OF
7 its certainty. But in this GOD
I hath given assurance unto al. men,
in that he raised him Christ from
Pthe dead. This is the demonstra-
I ton and pledge of immortality. OF
the fact Of Christ 5 resurrection
/ there is the greatest multiplicity OF
evidence Says DR.. Thomas Arnold
of Rugby, professor OF history in
the University of Oxford: Il have
been used for many years to study
I the history of other times, and to
examine and weigh the evidence of
those who have written about them;
and | know of no one Fact in the
! history of mankind which is proved
by better and fuller evidence OF
every sort to the mind of a fair in
quirer than that Christ died and
rose again from the dead " Space
forbids me to give Paul 5 argument
on the resurrection, for, be it
known, that some, even in Paul 5
day, ventured to dispute it; not the
resurrection of Christ, for it was
too soon for that while eye and ear
/ witnesses were still living, but the
I resurrection of the dead in general.
We have this grandest of all argu-
mcnts in the 18th chapter OF Cor
inthians. The whole gospel scheme,
we are told by Paul, is embraced in
three facts The death, burial and
resurrection of Christ. Christ died
for our SINS, according to the Scrip
lures; He was buried. He arose
again the third day, according to
the Scriptures. These are the para
mount facts of the Christian reli-
gion. A others have their import
ancc in these. AS u memorial OF,
and perpetual witness to these facts
we have the divine institution Of
baptism As Christ died, was
buried, and rose again from the
dead, so every Christian who is
properly initiated into Christ dies
10 SIM, is buried with Him by bap-
tism into death, and rises TO walk
in newness of life. (Rom. e.: 4 J
The death, burial and resurrection
Of Christ constitute the doctrine
of Christ The form on divine
mould in which this doctrine has
been cast is baptism This is the
form of doctrine delivered to us,
(Rom GAO. AS a form or
'mould of doctrine" baptism can
not be changed, or substituted by
such as sprinkling or pouring. 1t
must be form corresponding to the
death, burial aud resurrection of
Christ. 1t was with this in view
that the action in baptism was 50
ordered. The mutilation of this
beautiful "model of doctrine" has
brought incalculable injury to the
Christian religion.
observe in closing that Mr..
Fuller has now given US both ends
of the linc-Man's probable origin
by process of evolution, and his
destiny in the souls Immortality.
To the latter we have no objection,
though it is the Immortality of the
body that the resurrection contem-
/ plates and of which the Scriptures
speak Bat Of the former permit
me to say in the words Of Prof.
Agassiz; 1T is just one of those
fancied results following tie dis
closure or presentation of a great
law which captivates the mind, and
leads it to take that which il wishes
to be true, for truth.
Baraga, May II, 1899.
CHARLES PRICE.