The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-05

az rest with kings and Councillors o.
the earth which. built desolate pal
aces for themselves. or with princes
who had gold. who fiIIed their houses
with silYer-as infants which never
saw light. for there the wicked cease
from troubling and the weary are at
rest. There the prisoners rest to
gether, they hear not the voice of the
oppressor-the small and great are
there and the servant is free from his
master" Thus the idea pervading this
entire passage is merely the thought
of rest, something just q little more
personal perhaps than the Budhists'
absorption in Nayanna Rest and
quietude in Sheol. shadoWy cave,
with the shades of the small and
great, the kings and princes of the
earth-that is all merely rest and
quietude," but whether temporarily
or forever Job does not venture.
In poem by Tennyson. on the New
Years Eve, we find the christian con-
ception rises to the high plain of in
diVduaI immortality, when the dying
girl exclaims:
20, sweet and strange it seems to me
that ere this day is done
The voice that now is speaking may
be beyond the sun,
Forever and forever with those just
souls and true,
And what is life, that we should moan,
why make we such ado?
Forever and forever, all in a blessed
home,
And there to wait little while till
you and Fife come.
To lie within the light of God, as
lie upon your breast,
And the wicked cease from troubling
and the weary are at rest"
Here Immortality and life have been
brought to light Here is eternal ever.
lasting life, in blessed home, (fath.
erhood) in the light of Coda child
upon his fathers ARMAND they
shall hunger no more, neither thirst |
any more-the Lamb shall feed them
and lead them unto living fountains
Of waters and God shall wipe away all |
ears from all eyes" Thus has the fog |
been lifted, the uncertainty and
7agueness of the Hebrews Sheol and
he Greek shadow-world been cleared
Up in the clear light of intelligent be.
ief. This is life eternal that they
night know thee the only true God
md Jesus Christ whom thou hast
ent."
There are, however, a number Of
regiments for the~immortality of the
oul; some are drawn from analo-
les in nature, some are drawn from
and some are found in
he logic of life. "St. Paul sees a
rave in the furrow of a plough; our
urial in the corn dropped into the
Dill; our decay in the change under
one by the seed, and our resurrection
hen bursting its sheath and pushing
side the clod, It rises green and beau
full to wave its head in summer days
Igh above the ground that was once
s grave" Other men have seen
digestion of the resurrection in the u
sect, at first creeping worm, crawl
G on the earth, then weaving for It.
IL shroud, 1t makes it's coffin and a
some Granny in the wall It finds its
pulchre or in the ground a grave,
here shrouded, coffined and buried Il
lies apparently dead until its ap- i'
tinted time for change when it bursts %
prison walls, and stretching it's IL
lden wings, 1t scars toward the sun !"
skies. Is
The metaphysical arguments, both
D and con are at the best mere sub
speculations, while aside from the
ar declarations of Christ, which are :.
authoritive for us-the log. -
of life is to my mind the strong -
argument for immortality. In other
rds, as 1t has been we'll expressed: ~
we believe ourselves immortal be- -,
Use we believe ourselves fit for i'm -,
rtality. A substance ought surely -.
perish we think, If not worthy to -.
vive, and an insubstantial stream ,.,
prolong itself provided it be wor- 49,,
when a brute reaches its adult -,
dition 1t has achieved its upper -.
It possibilities. There is nothing a..
ut 1t which seems to deserve i'm
tally. While on the other hand
limitless capacity for intellectual r
spiritual growth which belongs to "
ian nature seems to justify a de-
ID for Immortality. Immortality v
MS to afford opportunity for mans Ha,
nal development Man has some maj
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