The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-04-20

time, but mans mind has conquered
space and subjugated time; therefore
whose realm is space and whose spec
tire is time, has no power to harm the
soul of man.
Finally the world was taught that
mans heart as we'll rs his mind lays
hold of immortality. There are friend
ships and attachments formed in this
life, but scarce formed are they before
death steps in and rudely tears apart
the golden chain that links soul to soul
and heart to heart. Look at that
weeping mother bend over the empty
cradle whose dainty pillow that nest
ling head shall never press again; look
at that young husband whose love-
sullen and unreconciled, has gone
down into the grave of his young wife,
as the sun sometimes sinks in storm.
cloud; see that old man bow his snow
white head in grief, because the hand
more is now cold in death; or see that
little child. and listen as he lisps
through his tears at bedtime the sim
pie hild-prayer. which his dead moth
er's lips shall never whisper again.
All these are as certain of the life be-
yond the grave as they are that to-
molTow's sun shall rise. All. God help
him who fingers by that heuped-up
mound, where loves unforgotten
dreams lie hidden, if he build not his
hope on Immortality! We have all of
us stood once, perhaps often, at the
new-made, grave of friend stricken
down in the flower of beauty, in the
full vigor of early manhood. We have
seen the remains lowered into the cold
earth. we heard the cruel thud of the
clay as it fell upon the cottin's lid. we
saw the last green sod laid on that
little mound, but we could not believe
that all was over. No. the human heart
rebels at the thought; all is not over.
There is place, there must be
place, where that young life will eN-
pand to it's full growth, where those
gifts which We're beginning to give
honor to God here on earth shall con-
tinue to glorify Him in the sight of
His angels forever. The soul linked
in bonds Of friendship with our soul.
that thought of us, that loved us, will
continue to think of us and to love us.
And grief is snnctiticd ut the thought
that friends SO rudcly Sundercd must
meet again in Il land where grief and
sorrow shall be no more.
Thus did men reason with them
selves and teach themselves that the
mind and heart of man reach out to-
ward Immortality. Thoughts like these
We're as the words of Moses to his peo-
pie; words like these went OH in grow
ing volume down the ages proclainling
from generation to generation that
over beyond the desert of this life,
there awaits us a home and Il country
where peace forever rcgnS and pros
perity always shines. But strong as
is the evidence for immortality, loud
as is the voice of the ages in favor of
the future life, those who believed
were always saddencd at the sight Of
many unbelicvcrs. At times the whole
world seemed to murmur against the
doctrine of Immortality and would
fam be content to believe that death
ends all things. 1t was at such mo-
ment that Christ our Savior came and
showed the fact of Il future life by
proof which no man can resist. His
body was real body, his death was Il
real death-thrcc days in the closed
tomb proved that-and vet He arose
again on the third day and walked
once more among his friends. He
spoke to them. ate with them, He al
lowed them to touch his sacred body
that they might be convinced that it
was indeed He. Away, then, with
your doubts and fears; the darkness of
unbelief has passed, the full dawn of
truth has burst upon the world While
we walked in the night we were glad
to follow the faint glilnmer of the dis
tant star of human reason, but today
the clear sunshine of the first Easter
morning falls upon our path and lights
the way to the land of promise. The
whole life of Christ on earth was a
revelation of heaven: from incarnation
to ascension, coming out of heaven and
going back to heaven, His life like
an inverted rainbow, shows in every
portion Of its sacred curve the perfect
beauty of a life beyond the skies; but
the ono fact of the resurrection stand
ing sngly and alone would have suf.
feed to. establish forever that there is
a. law by which the dead will live
again.
This was the lesson of the first Res
direction Day, and this is the lesson
of each recurring Easter. In the
Springtimc OF the year, nature herself
is passing from burial to resurrection
She has thrown aside the cold, white
winding-shcrt in which winter had
laid her in the tomb and steps out
clad in the Respondent col0rs of re
turning leaf and flower. celebrating
her triumph over death. So, too. yeal
after year, Christ rises triumphant in
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