The daily sentinel., 1905-02-27
= The Life Beyond q

There have been prophets of old
and prophets of the modern day
Now comes Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy
and presumes to inform us on ii mat
ter about which all are troubled. and
have been so since times dawn
What is our state after the breath
goes out and the light fades on this
world?
Mrs. Eddy, the chief priestess of
Christian Science. seems TO have pre-
empted heaven for her own peculiar
doctrine. This is unpleasant for
those who die outside her fold: but
there is nothing particular original
about the Christian Science heaven.
Most religious denominations. some
where in their existence, have staked
out a heaven where none but their
own chosen might intrude, and only
of late years have most Christian
sects finally gotten together and de
termined to exclude merely pagans
and disbelievers generally. These,
on their part, seem little exercised.
since they alike have some sort of
heaven of their own, the former with
seraglio accomplishments
1t may be safely said that, after
all has been written and spoken of
the future life by the wise. the COM
monplaee and the foolish, there is
none to speak with authority, not
even the remarkable Mrs. Eddy. An
thorfty thara &c mona ord tbo foo1..
visions may, perhaps, come as near
the reality as the philosophers alb
struse reasoning.
The Prince of Denmark voiced the
worlds despair of lifting the black
cell that shuts out the future state:
For who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under weary
life.
But that the dread of something af-
ter death
The undiscovered country, from
whose bourne
No traveller returns puzzles the will.
And makes us rather bear those ills
we have
Than fly to others that we know not
of"
Hamlet might have been enlight-
ened to know, had he been so for
tunate as to have lived in the TWEEN
tieth century. that, according to the
Eddy version, "the dying, or depart
ed, enter heaven in proportion to
their progress and fitness to partakc
of it's quality and quantity. One in
dividual may awaken first with a
sense of music; another with thai
of relief from fear or suffering; stil,
another with a bitter sense of lost
opportunities and remorse. Heaven
is the reign of divine science. Om
great teacher hath said, Behold, the
kingdom of God is within you With
in man is spiritual understanding OF
all divine modes, means and forms
of expression. or manifestation of
goodness and happiness"
But, let Mrs. Eddy dream her
dreams, since no particular harm Is
done. This we know: that we are
voyasing somewhere 1t may end a
the grave. but few believe so 1t
is not in human nature to so believe,
and the instincts of nature are proof
more powerful than found in holy
writ that there is a life beyond. From
darkest Africa, along each successive
grade to civilizations towering, no
tribe so low, no nation so lofty. has
been discovered which held not to
some form of deity or which carried
no hope for a future life.
1T must be so, Plato; thou rea-
soonest welll-
Else whence this pleasing hope. this
fond desire,
This longing after Immortality?
Or whence this secret dread. and in
ward horror
OF falling into nought? Why shrinks
the soul
Back on herself, and startles at dis
traction?
'Tis the divinity that stirs within us.
'Tis heaven itself that points out an
hereafter
And intimates eternity to man"
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