The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-02

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verse on which we look but in our own
deepest selves. .t ~
h The eternal within US claims kinship5
with the eternal without US. This yearn-i
ing for Immortality Is the unborn In us
cropping for the light to- which It Is des-s
tined. It is the inland stream calling to.
tho invisible ocean whence 1T came and
towards which y is FASTENING It ,th Is
osophy to convince me that these In.
stInctive longings and cryings OF my soul
for continued exlstence--extsten under
isi,, foolish and vain. It IS not possible
+ for man or angel to, ccnyince me that
tho unseen Power that put these ire
pressible aspirations into my spiritual be-
them. BY the very constitution OF my
being I am compelled to believe that ~
is not all Of life to live nor all OF death
q What the hope OF Immortality has done
! for the elevation OF mans Intellectual
and moral being and his progress IN
every element Of true civilization, and
what the rejection Of It has done TO de-
grade, brutallze and dehumanize man
Kind, render It Impossible for me to be-
iieve that this blessed expectation is only
a dream and O delusion. Eliminate from
our race all faith In conscious ational
existence beyond The grave ana yop
You render impossible the highest forms
of6virtue. fi without this faith men would
ere long become demons and the world
pandemonfum. ~
But the doctrine OF Immortality has
stronger support than our spiritual IN
buttons. The highest 8authorit our
belief on this subject comes from HIM
who said. II am the light Of the world"
.'I' am the way, the truth and the life"
elm my fathers house are many man
sions II 1t were not 30 = would have told
you; I go to 5prepare place ior. YOU.
s viii como again and receive you. unto
myself, that where am sye shall Z De
Not as a Philosopher.
TOT: tell me- that Christ's teaching was
arbitrary. He taught not as the phil
osopher bu. as one haying "a duthor1.s
ter verified all that he taught. He demon
strated by facts that are absolutely IN
scontrovertible that he was God mani;
physical ss. ,a 'n and nes Spiritual lie He taught
] with authority because unto him was
given all power In heaven and earth
This claim was verified by the spotless
life he lived, by the self-denials he prac-S
ticed by the sufferngs he endured, by
his opening the eyes OF the blind, giving
hearing to the deaf, healing all maniler
B OF diseases. auelling the, storms, raising
grave in which he had slept for three
days. What shall we do with his ktcs-t
timony Will DR.. Ia ylor and his SYM
pathizcrs charge Christ with imposture!
creduiity? II he was not an iinpostor,
nor an insane man. he was what. ne
God incarnate. What he was, what he.
did, what he taught Is our supreme war
rant for believing that III a man an die lie. he
shall live again." 4
than extingulsh the hope of Immortality
in the breast Of man. That hope Is an
element Of mans spiritual constitutions.
It has survived all the temptations and
It has grown with its growth and
strengthened with its strength; It Is a.
potent factor among the unseen forces
OF human society in every cline and
country; It Is destined to- abide and
flourish when the gross materialism /of
DR.. Taylor is dead, buried. and epitaphed
with the ridicule and reprobaton OF man
kind. s ..S
insects will arise and slightly dim the
llustre OF the sun. Then they die and
disappear; but the eternal orb of day
fGs ga II s q
ephemeral and pestferous like those In
sects. Christianity Is like the steady In
extinguishable and eternal radiance of
the sun. Me-
It seems to me that it must add very
much to a physicians respect for his
patient and to his sense OF RESPONSE,
bility to him and to society to recog-
nize IN him not being whose opportuni-
ties, possibilities and prospects are bound.
ed by the grave, but one who has III him
faculties which relate hi INTO the sovcr-l
eign Of the universe and At him. for a
career OF endless development, usefulness
and glory. The physician who sees in
his patient nothing more than a human
his existence when the heart stops and
the blood ceases to flow. Ia deprived Of
that respect, tender regard and pinspra-
ton which are essential to the highest
success IN the healing art The ply
s ha Sh his sss at the sex ss1yns
large degree, the interests OF a crea-
sture whom God has made In his own
Image and but little lower than tho
angels. and who Is destined to live and
think and act in higher and sublimer
berless as the sands ON the seashore. Ia
inspired by sense OF obligationiof which
the atheistic healer Is a bsolutely incapa-
BILE. rejoice that ] live In q community
where there are scores Of medical men,
the light Of Christian truth and under
the inspiration Of Christian faith. May
God multiply their seed. Give us medi-
cal men everywhere who., when they
have pa, Il made their hest efforts to save mor-
fidence, point the dying to All immortai-
ity OF existence In a realm where there
moro PAIN.