Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-30
ANDREWS ON IMMORTALITY
Chancellor Will Not Deny that Higher
Animals Shall Live Forever.
BUT THEY ARE STILL MERE BRUTEs, HE SAYS
Places Spiritual side of Life at
All Times Above the Ma
terisI and says Life IL
Good.

Chancellor p. Benjamin Andrews Of the
University OF Nebraska preached Sunday
morning at the First Baptist church TAX
ing for his text, Judge not according to
appearances, but Judge righteous judg-
ment," he likened the human soul to a
Roman coin buried for centuries and dug
up with a crust of mud, which, when
cleaned and polished, shows the image Of
some Roman emperor, its maker. Thus
the soul, he said, is sometimes hidden by
the mud of earthly life, but when sweeten-
ing, purifying and Frightening influences
are set to work upon it the spiritual gold
becomes apparent.
In comparing the value of the spiritual
and the material, as a preliminary to
showing the reason for the divine interest
IN man, DR.. Andrews quoted from "Gray's
Elegy':
For who 10 dumb forgetfulness a prey
This pleasing anxious being e, er resigned
Left the warm precincts of a cheerful day,
Nor cast one long, lingering LOOK behind
This stanza" said DR.. Andrews, lis
the most beautiful expression / have ever
heard Of the spontaneous appreciation of
life as Il is. am not like those church
men of old. who said life was bad thing
and prayed to be released from It as soon
as possible; ! feel that life is good, and 1t
is the spiritual is to be considered more
than the earthly. The Great Teacher Him
self says spiritual integrity is more i'm
portant than wealth, more important than
family. more important than bodily in
tegrlty He that saves his life shall lose
it. but he that loses his life for Jesus
sake shall find it.
Man IL Immortal.
WHO are we that God should notice US?
What is in us that makes God think so
much of us? why this plan of salvation
and why did Jesus die on the cross? one
Of the most common answers to this query
IL that man is immortal; that after gen.
erations and ages and cycles, in number
beyond the expression of the Arabic nota-
ton, he is just beginning to live-is only
in the morning of life. Now, no less
famous a man than Bishop Butler offered
the speculation, which he was not willing
TO deny. that the beasts Of the field may
live forever. I. for one, would not say
that the nobler specimens of the brute
creation are TO perish forever when they
die But a brute, IL immortal Is yet
merely brute.
Another answer is that man has the
power to know good and evil. He can be
blissful and can experience woe; he can
be in the heights or in the shady depths
he can be Gods companion or satan's
This power to know good from evil is
stupendous fact, but everything in the wide
universe has It in greater or less degree
You haven't solved the problem, but
merely turned It over on another side.
why is II God has given man this power
in greater degree than any brute?
my friends. the Bible solves the prob
lem. God created man in His own image
What God is in His great brains and
sphere, man is in his little brains and
sphere. Whenever God looks down on
earth. He can see His image in His human
children. The earthly father loves his son;
II he says he does not he lies. Do you
suppose the. divine Father loves less than
any earthly parent? He recognizes His
children wherever He finds them
ITO lose the soul is TO continue TO dim
the divine image in II so long that ii dis
appears, until It seems that even God can
not find trace of Himself To save the
soul is to brighten the image Of God in
the soul"