Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-10-05
ETERNAL LIFE.
By Rev. Stanley L. Krebs.

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ETERNAL LIFE.
By Rev. Stanley L. Krebs.
Text am come that they might
have life, and that they might have 1t
more abundantly. John Y 10.
Untouched by higher life, unvivi-
fed by true life, terrestrial life would
continue unchanged, even after death.
Mere existence will 80 on beyond the
grave both for the wicked and for the
sO-called moral man, moral by rule and
not by the inner Christ The soul of the
wicked and of the merely moral man
has endless existence, but they will not
live. They will merely exist, either
in endless torment, as Christ indicates,
all brought on themselves and adjusted
by their own character, or in an end
less lethargy, which would be practical
annihilation. According to this latter
hypothesis there is some truth in the
Buddhistic doctrine of Nirvana and
Des Carries sleeping mOnads."
AS our natural life differs from mo-
ton. so our eternal life differs from
our Christian character Motion is the
result of natural life. No life, no mo-
ton. A corpse is inert. No Christian
life in the soul, no Christian character
will develop from it. Character is thus
the fruit of the hidden life-rOot. The
Christian virtues and graces are the
| flowers and fruit Of Christ's life grow
ing and expanding in the soul. But
the life from which they grow is far
deeper, more mysterious and divine
than they. Even in Christ Jesus Him
self this law held good. For inspira-
ton says of Jesus, In Him was life,
and the life was the light of men,
That means that in Jesus divine life
| existed first, and then that divine life
shining forth in character and good
deeds became the light of men,
Christianity is vastly more than
mere system Of doctrine to be studied.
more than mere ethics to be conned.
more than rules of conduct to be Drac-
ticed: it is divine life, eternal life. ever
lasting life started ON earth, within
reach of all. Christianity brings
through definite laws which cannot
with impunity be broken or neglected
or trified with, brings to our souls
new force, a new life, celestial DO
tency, which they by mere creation did
not possess before, force which we
cannot think into ourselves, think we
never so wisely.
Short Meter Sermons.
The ready-made religion always looks
the part
There is nothing boiler than every
day helpfulness.
Faith never would know itself but
for foul weather,
A passion for speaking seldom is a
passion for souls.
You cannot elevate society at the
price of the individual
The strain of the market should be
the gain Of good morality.
The man who can keep his religion
to himself hasn't any to keep.
There never will be closed tow
until there is a wide-open church
He who does not get his education
from everything gets it from nothing
Religion never will be attractive so
long as it only offers easy things to
men.
The honest man knows himself too
we'll to think he wholly is self-mat!e
No man worships the divine better
than he who works for this poor old
human.
There are some men who, if they
we're drowning would wait for quar-
ter sawed board.
When man meets a doctrine that
doesn't square with his living he calls
it "dogmatism.'
This world is enriched not by the
laurels you lay on the strong, but by
the loads you lift from the weak.
Many who are stealing the bread OF
the poor are planning to pay them back
with statue Of the loaves and fishes.