The Newtown bee., 1906-02-09

These words of comfort and assur. ance were spoken to Jairus. They were uttered in response to. his faith | in the divine power of Jesus over life and death. His little daughter, IF years of age, was at the point of de- parture; and he besought the Master, saying: "I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live." But while he was "Thy daughter is dead; why trOublest thou the Master?"
 Death, to our weak, mortal nature is the sum of all terrOrS. It is so con- mon, and we know it to be inevitable; and have only to reflect a moment to realize that with every tick of the clock somebody's loved ones are pass ing on out of the tenement of clay and the physical relations of this world, into other conditions and relations be- yOnd, and invisible to the eyes of the flesh;-still death to say the least. is a mysterious change which we instinct lively dread. So much is involved in the separation which death brings that it must in the nature of the case come to most persons as an nnwelcOme guest. The natural affections dread death because love delights most in PClSOudl ACldulOuos AAC luUcllCCI IcdIO dissolution because it wishes to know and to understand the conditions and relations of life always. And as to our spiritual experiences, the true Chris tian sentiment and thought relating to life and death are among the last attachments. The natural life first, and afterwards the spiritual. And we are too apt to separate the two as though the one had no necessary rela- tions to the other.
 But from the Lords point of view the spiritual life is the only real life; and it is one and the same life, whether in the body or out of the body, wheth- CT here on the earth, or in the world of spirits. We live, whether here or there. And we are ourselves wherever we may be. The qualities and condi- tions of our moral and religious na- lures are the great questions with Him.
 As we read ChriSt's words concern ing life and death we can but be im- pressed with the fact that death to Him is no matter of fear or dread. He who has power over both life and death can put them always in their right re- lations to God and the eternal world. But in fact it is life, not death, which He brings to light and magnifies, so GQaG QeaCQ becomes mere lQClQelG 1n one unbroken line of spiritual progress.
 Our dread and fear of the change from this state of being to another spring from our lack of faith in the Lord of life. We magnify that which is least, and fail to comprehend that which is of the utmost importance Christ would have us realize that our spiritual life, which is, indeed, our real life, is essentially the same. and must be so, whether we are alive or dead as to the body. It is great change in a mans experience to cross the ocean and live in foreign lands; but so far as his moral character, and the life of the spirit are concerned there might not be any difference whether he were on this continent or that. A man is the same man there, whether awake or asleep; and so man is the same man whether dead or alive; for sleep is the image of death, and thus in the raising of Jairus' daughter Jesus teaches us in miracle that He has power over all the conditions and cir cumStances of life and death, that we may surely trust in Him.