The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-15

and. perhaps. care less. In the New Tesla
ment. you are on different ground. and are
breathing a different atmosphere And
when you look for the horizon 20 your pic
and talk. speak as immortais 20 an I'm
mortal: and. for the instant. you cannot
Dsnv accept Sol their pose9iate. In their ON.
leader Of them all, who starts them on
this line OF address. at once so simple and
so large. He takes from first to last the
Gods sons ard daughters. that you share
the infinite life. Death? h Is IL? They
who truly live can never die.
STUDY GODS WAYS.
Let any man to-day take for leading
motives the motives which might impel
any servant OF God who is not worried by
fear of death or Of what may follow II.
Let a man live with God, not afraid to
talk with Him. Let him study Gods plans
and methods, as one of Michael Angeles
pupils might study his. Let him work in
natures laboratory. tracing the present
processes of creation as they go on to-day
when the lily opens; or let him study his
tory. and In the evolution Of CEN
fury from century see what II is
which is weak. and what that is
which prevails. how vice and crime are
powerless and bring forth no issue. and
how righteousness exalts a nation. Or let
a man undertake, with other men and
women. what he might suppose an angel
would do, not fettered by time nor anxious
about its passage. Let him range from
howell to garnet in seeking his society. let
him house with crime If he can so help
crime, let him carry comfort to beggary,
and teach beggary the secrets of industry.
Let him live with men for men, not as il
the clothes that he wears or the viands he
eats were of the first import.
Such life with God is what the apostles
mean by faith. Such life for men Is what
they mean by love. The man who bids his
life move in such causes starts to-day on
the career of an immortal. His mortal
house is clothed upon with his house which
Is from heaven. He lives as an immortal
lives. He opens a window into the In
finite through this dead. blank wall which
did shut OF his prospect He changes the
focus of his camera and his foreground Is
no longer distorted and twisted. And while
he does this he finds that that third ele-
ment of an immortal's life takes on GER
tainty. What Paul calls nope, by which he
means living in the future while a man
lives in to-day. is all the time growing
stronger and more a thing of course were
it only by exercise. He uses what he has,
and because he uses it he has more.
A man on this earth may be so inter-
ested in faith and hope and love, which
are the infinite dement's of eternal be-
ing. that what is merely earthly. eating
and drinking and sleeping, shall be quite
subordinate. And this double life, shall L
call it, is what Paul means when he says
the life on earth is clothed upon with the
life which Is from heaven.
Easter morning does not prove mans i'm
mortality. 1t asserts il. In the universal
resurrection from the night of winter, as
Life returns which has been sleeping or
~shrouded, ii asserts mans communion and
-companionship with the God who is life;
and it declares that man, who is child of
God, cannot die. Because he is immortal
he can adjust his life with the infinite per-
spective. Because he is immortal he can
come to his God as an immortal comes, can
speak. can listen and can reply again. Be-
cause he is immortal he arranges his duties
on the scale of Immortality. He begins, If
he chooses, on what shall task him a thou
sand years to finish; he enters on this en-
terprise or that, perfectly sure that he has
infinite allies. Is one of these allies called
away so that he does not see his face? 1t
is as a fellow-officer might be sent on other
service in the campaign, whom he is TO
meet again in the hour OF victory. Because
he is immortal, he lives with these and for
these. who also are immortal. They have
perhaps help for him; he has perhaps help
for them. Help or not, each has for each
companionship. and it is not TO be that
they are to grind along through ages of
ages, stupid and alone.
To renew such immortal life here, of
faith and hope and love, is the mission
every year of Easter day. That this which
is mortal may be clothed upon with i'm
mortality.