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WORLD OF
RELIGION
Dr.. Heber Newton On
The Future Life.
"A CATHOLIC PARTY. y
Bishop McFaufs Recent Address n
its avor--Sefmon and
Church Notes.

ness the same being as OF old.
The threads of the old existence are
not cut at the touch of death.
Death ushers us into no foreign
world. All that is essential to human
life here will be found there.
! The activities of our being on earth
will be the activities of our being in
/ heaven.
! The occupations of earth must shad-
ow and type the occupation of heaven.
! In higher and nobler forms we must
go on doing there what we are doing
here.
Death makes no break in the con-
| tinuity of character. A man is the
same here and hereafter.
The wise man before death will be
wise after death.
There will be fools over there as here
The selfish man before death win re-
main the same selfish man after death
The fingers that have been busy
handling thaeroupier of our American
Monte Carlo, which faces Trinity
Church, cannot turn at an hours no.
tice to playing harps in the New Jeru-
salem.
The eminent DR.. Heber Newton of
New York is responsible for the above
series of remarkable statements con-
corning the future life. They were not
embodied in any of his regular dis
courses, but appeared in the August
number of the magazine Mind. DR..
Newton is the present rector of All
Souls Protestant Episcopal Church,
one of the most fashionable places of
, worship in Gotham, and is ranked
! among the advanced thinkers of the
present day. Hence his opinions upon
religious matters are always widely
read
Among the staunch defenders of the
5 old orthodox beliefs, the new theology
has naturally provoked a storm of ad-
verse criticism, and church trial may
/ yet develop.
Of the prominent local clergymen, the
Rev. William i,ader, pastor of the
2 Third Congregational church, consent
ed to be interviewed in reference to DR.
Newton's singular utterances. Mr.. Ra.
: der said:
) THE problem OF the future is one
about which We can only speculate. The
fact is, we know very little about the
7 matter We know (apart from the
n gIimpses given in the Bible) more abou
n China and Alaska, or Africa and Ok
: lahoma than we do about the othel
! world. There is no geography, or to
: Biography, no definite outline or knowl
[ edge of the world beyond the grave, bu
in the night of death hope sees a sta
and listening love can hear the rustl
n of q wing. We know from a scientifi,
!. standpoint more OF death than Of tn,
V resurrection, more of this world thar
g the other. Now we see through a glas
: darby. The Bible has a great escha
: tology or doctrine of last things, thu
: central fact of which is the second com
ing Of Christ This is the central even
in a group of events which include thu
resurrection, general judgment and fina
. awards. The resurrection is supposed
= to follow a period of bliss for the gooC
: and discomfort for the evil, both o
= whom shall be called forth to judgmen
. when each shall BE- judged according Il
= the deeds done in the body and ac
II cording to Christ This is the theolog,
of hlichael Angelo, who has painted
. his majestic vision on the walls of tn
Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. 1t wa
: at this point where the future probation
- hypothesis Of the professors came ii
= They raised the question, How abou
- the heather who never heard of Christ?
- and they answered emphatically, the.
= may have another chance if it is nee
l. essary to hear OF Christ in order to b
saved. The orthodox view of the resur
5 rection was held to a physical resur
'e rection, or later to this--that the sou
l. went TO an intermediate state, there t
: remain until the final heaven or he
t began. This middle state was express
f,l n
Oh 'Hodez.' The new Immortality hold
= to the view that resurrection occurs a
death. and that now is the judgmen
of the world that it is an experienc
1 rather than a place in time.
= The new immortality breaks with Tia
d. New Testament eschatology or with tn
l. orthodox interpretations of the NeN
T. Testament evidence. It is a questo
S. how far the New Testament believer
D in the old Immortality We're enligNene
te on that subject, and how far thei
views were colored by Hebraisms an
materialism. Every New Testamen
- writer held to the immediate secon
ls return Of our Lord but he did not S
l. return.
lie Apart from what may or may not
&c taught by Scriptural evidence let U
e look at the views of DIR. Newton. II
id says: Death is the true resurrec
id ton Certainly that is now the opir
ion of those who have given this sui
4. ject the benefit of careful though
VI Death is the emancipation of the sou
- 1t is liberty, development, advanc
III growth, enlargement, which is to sa
OF resurrection. Therefore / question tn
III next statement. He who dies awaken
L into consciousness the same being as ,
at old / like to think Of the soul q
IS having graduated into a beauty con
ii. mensurate with its spiritual environ
of ment. But DIR. Newton leaves me her
r knowing as he presumes to know, MOI
in about the next world than /.
in How does he know the occupation
on of earth must shadow and type II
ad occupations of heaven or that 'thel
IS. will be fools there as here, or th'
o. the selfish man before death viii r
he main the same selfish man aft
We ldeath?
ur every manNto his place and a pla'
for every man, or better each will rea