Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-20

eruai, IL Cor. iy:1S.
! ment We answer the question in the af-
firmative, and now ask your attention to
our reasons for 50 believing.
That there is a future world in which we
are TO live has been the faith of all the
ages. -.
| The earliest records Of the-race testify to
! such a belief The Egyptians. Persians,
! Scythians, tssyrians, Celts and Druids be-
! lieved in the immortality of the soul, and,
| OF course in future state. This faith was
not lost in the deepest darkness into which
| the race ever sunk, nor was it surrendered
| as Evolutionary prejudice amid the lights
| of the highest civilization. And this uni
! versal faith in future world seems part
of our humanity. The mind of the child
grasps it the moment it is presented The
mind of holry age clings to it with a ten
acity which no feebIeness can relax. The
savage, the sage. the hermit, the lover of
fashion, T. poor, the rich equally cling to
the belief o a future state. and are cheered
by its hopes or awed by its fears And
when all other hopes and fears are forgot
ten amid the shadows of death, when col
Letting fast and thick around us. even then
are we sustained by the hopes or depressed
b. the as of meeting our God in judg-
nent. And this mdelible impression upon
the universal conscience of man is itself
proof of the existence Of future world
Would our benevolent Creator implant such
belief In the universal conscience if there
was nothing in the unseen to correspond to
1t? Would these voices, admonishing us of
future world, be evermore sounding in
Impossible. The desire of future existence
is innate to man. There is no person who
finds full satisfaction in his present enjoy
ment and the more the mind is cultivated
the more it is seeking to advance from it's
present to some higher attainments. Things
that give exquisite enjoyment at first soon
lose their relish and soon pail the appetite
they pleased And the evidence of all this
you see in the universal desire for novelty
for change-you see everywhere around
you.
And this desire of future existence is a
pCNtI / u stimulus 10 nOEle ana generous
actions. When life was offered to Demos
themes on a base condition. he replied, God
! forbid that ], who have heard Plato dis
course so divinely on the immortality of the
soul. should prefer life of disgrace to an
honorable DEATH Hence, too, the noble
actions of Christian heroes under the In
fiuence of the things unseen and eternal.
Their faith was the substance of things
hoped for, and the evidence of things not
seen; and in order to secure title to 1.-The
better country" they counted not their own
| life dear. They looked beyond the bounds
of the present; they lived for future and
rejoced in the hope that was set before
! them and such, IN some degree is the uni
versal desire of man. And would God ex-
cite this desire if there were no future
world-if the soul died with the body? No;
we do not cease to be when we die; we
merely pass from this world to future
world.
But has a human being ever returned to
earth from the invisible world? Go to that
| mount of TRANSPORTATION, where the Savior
assumed for a brief time the glory which
he had with the Father before the world
was: and who are there conversing with
him? They We're Moses and Elias; the one
the venerable deliverer and legislator of
/ Israel. the other the venerable priest and
! prophet of the dspensation which was just
| about to vanish away. who assembled to
! heaven in d chariot of fire. and, as If for
| the purpose of proving that, whether we die
| upon the mount with Moses, or are trans
! lated with the prophet, there Is another
| world where live after death.
| And we have in the resurrection of Christ
! proof positive to the same point. II He
| was divine, He was also human He as
| sumed our nature. suffered and died In our
| nature, and rose in It. The body that died
| rose from the grave; and He rose the first
| fruits of those that slept, the pattern and
| pledge of our resurrection: and He only
| went before to prepare a place for his peo-
| pie, for He will come again and receive
! them unto Himself. lie rose and ascended
| to world now invisible to US. For the
! things which are seen are temporal but the
| things which not seen eternal