The Cairo bulletin., 1907-09-16
.rHE SOULS FINAL ANCHORAGE
God and the Future Life--PauI's Tes
timony and the Christians
Spiritual Light.

- street yesterday morning rev. Cna
= Fl. Armstrong delivered an able Sc
lInon In which he dealt with faith an
knowledge OF God and the future lit'
lie spoke in part as follows:
= For we know that, If our earthl
Il lhouse of this tabernacle were di:
Y solved. we have building OF Coz
m house not made with hands
eternal In the heavens e Cor 81.
THE boat is launched, but wher
is the shore?"
Clearly. emphatically the inspire'
Paul speaks of the souls eterna
home; first, to the Corinthians, theI
to all others seeking truth. With in
| sane hatred. apparently, Saul of Tar
sus prosecuted the primitive church
Ibut. on that memorable trip tc
Damascus, the turning poin came In
This life. Obedient to the heavenly
i vision" he went forth TO those In
i darkness and the shadow of death,
Fearlessly he breasted stormy seas,
lserenely he preached Christ and him
lcrucified' to barbarians, dying faith
/ ful to his rust.
/ The boat is launched, but where is
4 the shore?" These words are the
lproduct OF an author unknown, by
whom, doubtless, the peaceful wales
and sunny slopes of immortality have
/ long been sighted.
Value of PauI's Evidence.
II
| with authority. saying we know.
| Now. how did he know is the i'm
portant question. Was it assumption,
or faithg Neither: Paul was too
good a logician to mistake between
belief and knowledge" He is one
Iof the strongest characters Of either
the old or the new testament He
had evidence far transcending
faith" He had seen the ineffable
light, been stricken by an unseen
power, heard the voice OF the inyis-
ible Christ Paul does not say, Il
think or Il beliye," but Il know.
He had been with God learned OF
him, seen heavenly things.
GhT tpHFls aAA
end Silas--prisoners- sang hymns OF
hope, their gloomy prison was trans
formed into bower of light and
glory Later, many centuries, the
same God that Illuminated their. cell, |
waited into the heart Of blind Milton |
marvellous light as he toiled on his
masterpiece, Paradise Lost" I'M
quenchable is that radiance. From
Paradise it shines into heart aud con-l
science. For thirteen years that lightll
glorified the cell of Raleigh. going |
with him to the scaffold, even with |
his head upon the cruel block, it gave |
him power to bless and forgive.
One of the early reformers, John !
Huss. in fourteen hundred, fifteen,
was burned as an hereto. Are you
going to burn goose?" he asked his
executioner, and then added: In one
century you win have a swan you can
neither roast nor broilv We're his 1
words prophetic? Martin Luther APP
peared on the stage in about one hun.
bred years and his coat of arms was
a swan. The Spirit OF God--the true
Light-in an age of theological dark,
ness. gave Huss his sight. So with
Jeremy of Prague, Savanraola and
others.
Our Evidence.
But" says one. "can we say as did
Panl, i know" Let us consider the
natter. You and today do not see
he visions" OF the great apostle: /
but we may apprehend certain moral
md spiritual truths so fully and in
enselg that we are justified in
affirmatively Faith is
he substance Of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen" No one
lays, Il have faith that there is a
;od.' Why? No effect is possible !.
Fiihout a cause. hence we know God
5 the primal Cause Now we have
alth. however. that God is ALLOWING. :
ll-wise. ail-power.ul. Faith says to :.
is that Paul was not mistaken when ;
c enunciated our text. Intuition.
from within the depths OF /.
otis' tpHHA'"90f ShFs II dui was foIfftl.
nd lastly the Spirit whispers tender
: TO our yearning souls that PauI's
lessage is true. Hence, you and
lsy know through faith in the Word. z
trough the power OF the Spirit.
through soulintution Is higher or
etter authority desired? n
ersonaI Apprehension Of Spiritual
Light.
Into ones iunerliye comes the U
light and soulunfoldment results. Q
leaven is not reached at one leap. J.
nee a king intimated that he should =
? indicted into the mysteries OF j
umbers by shorter Foute than
hose Of common clay. The answer
Archimedes has borne a proverb
Sire. there is no royal road to
eometry" Neither is there any 2
oval" road to heaven. Take up the c
'oss. deny self. thus practically sp- G
ying the tenets of our religion. Law {
exofable rules in the natural world. h
SO in the spiritual. The soul OK fC
ands obedient to Law as the tiny ici
ua unfolds into fuil-bloWn rose. Man c,
As constantly advanced since the Al
avn Of time. Nations of antiquity. b.
Ne by one. have been mustered OF 50
les stage. and their Successors have
WAYS occupied = higher moral and