The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-15
SEATTLE, SUNDAY. APRIL ~.



'Tf man die, shall he live again."
That longing question underlles the
Easter hope and the Easter JOY. Since
man was first confronted with the fact
OF death, realized its universally and
its inexorableness. IT has filled him with
the confidence of the beatiflc vision or
with unutterable despair He looked
about him upon that nature of which
he felt himself a part, and saw all else
Fastening through vigor TO decay; its
beauty blooming only to the dust that
ehould never restore 1t TO the world
the lesson OF the material analogy.
Again he looked and saw the perpetual
miracle OF spring; the regeneration OF
the world. the new birth into old forms
OF loveliness. And while his body
marked the sure decline. the soul Of him
caught at the fieeting promise OF earth
new-garlanded. OF all the turnings Of
the spirit. none e so constant as its
appeal for immortality; it's passionate
reliance, wistful or defiant, upon the
triumph of resurrection over death.
To this hope all great religions have
ministered. They hold the young BY
their appeal TO the Ideals that deck with
rosy hues the morning sky. But to the
disheartened and disillusioned. those
who carry scars and have fought the
fight which leaves them worsted. they
extend the prospect of an infinite hope
Another chance, better order. the eter-
nal persistence of the divine element IN
humanity, the infinite possibility OF In
finite spirit--these are the conceptions
that mankind has clutched with des-
perate grasp. BY It's very importantly
II would scale the battlements OF
must be TO set straight the balance Of
a world awry. And OF all the promises
on which the world has rested. none has
won the triumphant faith OF man as
has that embodied In our Easter day
The perfect life finds contamination and
guerdon worthy OF II In It's offered hope
of Immortality TO earth.
We OF this elder age are happier than
the millions who have chung by faith
alone to sacred promises In new
sense are they blessed who. not having
seen. may yet believe For there Is
possible to this time of+ours a certainty
OF conviction not 90 be equaled save IN
those whose eyes may have seen the
miracle Of an actual resurrection. out
of that same world whose hint mysteri-
Gus comes to us In the upward rush OF
sap and the outward burst of foliage
and flower. the slow and patient
thought Of ages has plucked the con-
flrmation that mind as well as heart
demands Reason and religion intelu-
gence ana faith are no longer autipodal.
Their harmony Is plainly visible. Not
only by rugged paths marked with
blood. bat In pleasant Ways BY field and
forest. through innn,te nature may We
get e. God" LILY and rose as well
az passion flower twiue as NJ omblems
about the cross.
From the Severcst study Of the world
about US and It's laws. few principles
emerge that are as well tlxed as either
the order u nature or the constitution
OF the human mind itself la phlloso-
ply. tn psychology and IN natural scl-
enee their acceptance is universal one
Of these Is the MISUNDERSTANDING Of farce
II is eternal The law Of the conserya.
tion % energy Is supreme. Force may
be transmitted change It's character it's
qualities. It's mode of action. bu, II per.
slsss Man Is spiritual as well as a
material force, II IS known 20 his own
consciousness. II N evidenced "a the
history OF the nations. Because moral
considerations everywhere affect and
come more and more TO govern actions,
no matter what their origin may hata
been. spiritual energy exists In tho
world as certainly as electrIc energy, a.
demonstrably as the pressure OF a gas
or the weight OF a column OF water.
That same belief in the fiNity OF law
which denies q miracle must affirm that