Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1905-06-03

Every sabbath day brings nan INTO close relations
with the future unseen wooing him 10 higher efforts ana
nobier hopes. But la the day Of days when
faith springs from the ashes OF the dead and hopes rain
how bands Of promise arches the valley OF the
shadow into which all OF must soon descend.
retired Des Moincs minister recently made the
statement In a public meeting OF ministers that he knew
there was no such thing az a future life
Ills il A new kind of dogmatsm. There are agnos-
who they DO know whether or not the soul Is
immortal, this ex.minster makes fiat denial OF IT,
Ho would hnd Il difcut 20 prove bis negative But aside
from claims Of the human consciousness az 10 immortal
y, and those Of revealed religion the question obtrudea
itself WHAT possible good can come % the world throush
such declaration
This minister should any pay attention to him is
trying to take She spiritual crutchos from under the
boroaved and the mournere who about the streets
That the loved and only crossed the bar and
await our coming the fond belief Of the faithful soul
n We are TO deprived OF this pleasing hope We are OF
all men most miserable.
The heart OF love instnctvey shrnks from such a
view OF death. Does this minister know that % "a
better and nober and to hope and love and trust
pray1 XIII the hope Of future life and you make
of this earth hell.
How much nobier more olevating more productive
OF good are the following words from the Youths Com
pan.on. appropriate TO the coming morrow.
Many a man. buslly occupied with the material
affairs OF life has come doubt his immortality
hut at night In the quiet OF his home he has watched
his children play has his boy 30 uD 10 his mother
with the .rlck of manner with which he approached
his mother thirty forty ago. has heard hs
daughter express herself IA che fora Of words that
he used her age and he noted these things has said
90 himself u shall live again do live again in these
my children
tic is right He would also admit The Immortality OF
the glorious az well OF the reproducing Itself
from father Tho heroes of Thcmopylao are not
forgotten. the spirit which impscd Mcttus Curtius 20
throw himself into the chasm Rome htil moves
men TO herosm the Christ who died 70 not the
material part but the everlasting spirit has lost hs
power 20 thrill men with divine ardor TO follow Him
what IL Il that "a DO next Tuesday when We
cover thousands OF graves with owrrsl u 10 The mold
erng ashes mortal human remains that We honor or
the immortality OF spirit that willing 10 lay down
material life that freedom might not perish from the
earth7
As we walk and talk with the survivors of The great
conflict are always impressed with their heroism
but that horosm is such modest quality that
does not ohtrude Itself The who holds the pillow
In the field was heroic. the man who drives the
stagacoach stood an night picket duty never knowing
when bullet might end him there IN the darkness. and
the village grocer carried the nag through the recsnp
powder smoke IL float on the enemy ramparts.
The grecat human heart beats tr, AZ every test
and that which inspires immortal deeds must OF necessity
inherit Immortality
And so on Tuesday will streV flowers the
graves OF the departed from these sweet and lovely
embems OF immortality viii gather faith and hope
anew to bear the OF life TN shall say time
good night" and In that faircr CLINE exclaim good
morning