Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-04-14

Observation-Disclosures .s..s.s.s:.ss.:: !.
Easter festivities. You must
Weep awhile, if We are fain- (:
Sunshine still must follow rain; &.
Only not att death, for death,
Now know, is that first breath Z
Which our souls draw when we enter
Life, which is of all life, center. /.
At the open grave, on this Easter
day, the race stands peering into the
dim and distant future, and asks the
question:: '.How are the dead raised
up? and with what body do they
Gomez" There has never been but
one recorded answer to this great
query: "Thou sowest not that body
that shall be, but bare grain, 1t may.
chance of wheat, or of some other
grain" It requires no impossible feat
of the mind to understand that physi-
cal changes may be wrought without
effect upon the realm of spirit. It is
said that the throbbing heart Of flesh
undergoes radical change In specified
time ANTAGONISTS tell us that the
body passes through. a perfect meta
morphose within a given term Of
years, and yet identity lis undisturbed
Here is the supreme thought in the
Christians faith. 1t may have been
anotheT-the4 resurrection body-but
the nail-prints and clefted side were
tangible evidences that steadied the
drifting faith of Thomas. When /
reach heaven, among the blood
washed throng j may not find the
flesh and blood of my sainted dead.
Just as one grain of wheat is not diff
ferent from the other, though one be
long since dead, 50 shall we recognize
our loved and lost in the summer land
of flowers .5 IS Il .zs
/ Subscription TO a specified creed, or
to no creed at all, seems not to have
| forestalled these g1eamings of the
immortal life. Cicero, the majestic
orator and silvertongue among the
Romans, said long ago: 'There il, J.
know not how in the minds of men,
a certain presage, as it we're, Of q
future existence, and this takes dee D
Lest root, and is most discoverable, in
the greatest geniuses and the most ex-
allied SOULS Dryden, whose verse Is
not always in tune with the Infinite,
said: :&ssss> =
Sure there is none but that fears a
future state; Is.
And when the most obdurate swear
they do lot, 81.
Their trembling hearts belle their
/ bpasting tongues. a IS
Colonel Robert G.. Ingersoll is said
Ito have been an agnostic. He was
Ian arch Idoubter After every truHh-
j irresponsive to human senses -he
1 placed the eternal Interrogation point.
4 His creed lay within the boundaries
Iof 81 KNOW" Ingersoll's diction
was like a poem; his thought, dream
Iof beauty. Listen to this period pro
InOunced by him at the open grave of
his brother: Gle believed that hap
tpiness was the only good, reason the
Ionly torch, Justice the only worship,
1 humanity the only religion, and love
I, the only priest, He added to the sum
OF human joy; and were every one to
whom he did a loving service to bring
ia blossom to his grave, he would sleep
tonight beneath a wilderness Of
a flowers. Life is narrow vale be.
tween the cold and barren peaks OF
!, two eternities. We strive in vain to
look beyond the heights. We, cry
aloud, and the only answer is the
n Wailing echo of our cry. From the
4 voiceless lips Of the unreplying dead
there comes no word; but in the night
a Of death hope sees a star and listen.
Il ing love can hear the rustic of a wing.
n He who sleeps here when dying. mis-
H taking the approach OF death for the
return OF health, whispered with his
--latest breath, Il am better now Let
Ius believe, In spite of doubts and
II dogmas, Of fears and tears, that these
4 dear words are true Of all the count.
less dead" The question stands at
4 the door Of the universal heart: d
!. Can 1t be? rs. 5ss 5.
Matter immortal? and shall spirit die?
+ Above the nobler, shall less noble
]. rise? Il
Shall man alone, for whom all else
n reyives, ss
III no resurrection know? shall man
alone,
4 Imperial mani be aown ii barren
ground. 81 54a
I. Less privileged than the grain, on
which he feeds? 3t9