The Newtown bee., 1907-05-10
ETERNAL LIFE.
BY JAY THRILL.

Psalm 40: '; Then said I, To, I come; in
 s.And he hath put a new song in my mouth. even praise unto our God many shall see it,
 The three chief attributes of the deity of which we boast ourselves of second, power; third, justice.
 The first excites our admiration and desire. The second fills us with dread and terror. The third inspires us with love and respect. This last only is truly and personally communicated conduct him to the other two, it being impossible for man to become truly immortal and powerful without being just.
 The first attribute is obtained by and made manifest in the belief of the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and hath brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel. And in the Cos pei according to John 5: "A: "Verily, verify say unto you, He that heareth my word and believeth on him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come unto condemnation, but is passed from death unto life" One of the most profound arguments for tn e immortality of the soul is the perpet- out possibility of ever arriving at perfection. How can it enter into ths thought of man that the soul which IS capable of such immense perfectress and of receiving new Improvements to
 all eternity. shall fall away intonoth- ing almost as soon as created. Would it be just to place man on erth for l three score years, and endow i'm with such faculties of perceptiOpAnd 1ptel-
 lect and so soon lay those gifts jaway for unknown ages in darness and in | the habita tion with peIsn1ng /mortal | h06 l0 lhrfa f0
 him that said, II am ne Light of the World,' "I am the Brea1 of Life," 1 and in every instane the )heraldry of light and life tho will continue on
 and on to all eten15y 1n it's eternity
 the mysteries creation will be re-
 vealed to thSe en4uiring, trusting
 minds. Mas>considered in his present
 state, does7a seem born to enjoy life
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 animals!E ne brute arrives at state
 of perte d1on that he can never pass in
 a few vars, be has all the endowmentS he is cpablG of, and were he to live
 op ard on to all eternity he would be
 the anne thing as at present.
 Woulq an infinitely wise and power fui being make such creature as man and endow him with such abilities for such d brief season and then leave him in darkness and decay? Does it not appear against all reason that the soul and body both occupy the tomb. The Infinitely Wise Creator when he breathed into man the breath of life, started the dust into action and when that breath or spirit returns to God who gave it then the dust returns to dust. There is the separation. There is no more pleasing, powerful and tr1- umphant consideration of religion than of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of it's nature without ever arriving at stopping place, but go1Hg on from strength to strength and glory to glo- ry to all eternity. She adds virtue to virtue and knowledge to knowledge, power to power. It must be pleasi ng to God to see his creation growing more beautiful and drawing nearer and nearer to him. We know not yet what we shall be nor will it ever into