Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-10
Sunday Morning Talk
A Reasonable Creed.

Article sixth I'VE believe in the final
triumph of good and in the elimination Of
evil
No creed satisfies the mind that does not
have something to say about the here
after. Some creeds have said altogether
too much. A reasonable modern creed will
not be too explicit. Moreover, what it says
cannot be verified at once. For absolute
certainty regarding the future, We must
wait until that future arrives. Neverthe-
less. as we survey calmly the forces and
processes now at work in the universe and
in human life something stronger than a
hope something amounting to a positive
conviction springs up in our hearts, and we
confidently declare that we believe in the
new heaven and the new earth which shall
come to be by and by the fair and
righteous outcome and contamination of
human life as We know it today.
Who can believe that the grave is the
goal, that there is nothing beyond? When
the late Senator Hoar Of Massachusetts, re-
turned to the United States Senate after the
death Of his wife, his colleagues naturally
offered their condolences. He received
them graciously, quietly remarking, Il ex-
pect to see her SOON" And that expecta-
ton was speedily fulfilled. Those who
have seen on the faces of their beloved
dead a look of inexpressible peace may
well believe that the departing spirit
stamps the lineaments with the assurance,
! "Alls we'll"
Evolution helps US at this point. Can
man have been lifted so high from the
brute creation, only to have his life snuffed
out like a candle? Science today points to
a realm in which powerful psychic forces
are continually at work. The fact that the
ordinary man absorbed in material things
does not recognize 1t is no argument
against its existence. To the ordinary man
| as compared with a Benjamin Franklin or
an Edison the realm in which electrical
forces reside is almost a myth. Had he
not been instructed with regard to them
| he might hardly have suspected their ex-
istence or guessed at their utilization.
Yes, there is something around US and
about us, whose influence makes for the
| progress of mankind. Allied with that
power, the good in man persists and tri-
umphs; the evil dwndles and decays 1t is,
after all, the meek who inherit the earth,
| not the fierce lower animals, not the hyena
and the tiger, but the docile, serviceable
animals. II is not the arrogant, barbarous
| session of this earth is being given, but to
| those nations which profess at least to be-
| lisve in the Prince of Peace.
| So the good man who is really battling
i against evil may be absolutely sure of vic
1 tory, for they that fight for him are more
| than they that fight against him. AS to
what becomes of the evil man. We may no,
! dogmatiZe too rigidly, but We may be sure
! of this. that in the final contamination he Is
| to be eliminated. Will he go to heaven?
| How can he when 1.-The man to be happy in
! heaven must have heavenly mind"
1 cannot think of Nero or Guiteau going
| straight from earth to heaven. Will the
| bad man then go to hell? 1t is not for yo,
| or me to pronounce the doom of any indi-
vidual
But God must sometime be all in ALL and
| the kingdom of evil vanish before tn,
| kingdom of peace and goodwill.
This glorious hope revives
Our courage by the way
THE PARSON.