Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-16
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By Rev. Edwin w. Caswen.
No.. What Is your Iife?-James 4: ID.
{fo II is said, is not blind alley, !"
$50 tboroughfare death, a bend in
W. rood that stretches on through the
Uncovered country. Belief in God
- IN the future life makes men pa
',aa+ IN suffering hopeful in despair,
ao,o under calumny, philanthropic,
oo,fsocrifcing, patriotic and heroic.
:. has inspired the greatest classics In
,,toro+,1rp, Moses, Homer, Virgil, Dan
10 Goethe Bunyan, Milton, all write of
horops living beyond the present life.
rho chief discoveries and inventors
erst saw bv faith the Invisible world.
cocrotps Calico, Copernicus, Newton,
Faraday Watt, Fulton, Morse and Edi-
con the nearer they approached the
4 creator in their vast researches the
moro they believed the future to be a
q Vfp for the adjustment of inequalities,
q for the continuance of development, of
8 .+,,dios and discoveries and for the re-
& miOn of souls.
The tendency of those who decry the
q fnture as SO problematical as to be I'M
4 nractiral is to sink down into material
q ism and animalism, desiring only food,
I fire clothing and housing, reducing life
n getting a living" whereas life here
q Is only the husk of the life beyond, the
& corr the husk being valuable till the
corn is garnered.
Chrlsts great power over mankind
was because he truthfully exclaim-
cd ~ am the resurrection and the
life Without the resurrection Chris
tianity would have persisted at Its
birth. Other religions worship ut the
i tomb of dead leaders, while Christcn-
4 dom exclaims: Il know that my Re
deemer Iiyeth.' Humanity everywhere
caves life. Browning beautifully says ::
No life that breathes with human breath
Has ever truly longed for death;
IT'S life whereof our lives are scant,
0 life, not death, for which we pant;
More life and fuller, that l want,
Is not Immortality really here and
now and time but a fragment of the
whole HE? We are passing through
eternal atmospheres, as the earth
through air, uncOnsciously, while the
eclipse Of death is only a shadowy
cloud before the light of the morning.
Life should mean unending bliss or
II is not worth living. The gates of
God must open or all is a failure. Life
must mean cheer. stereotyped in time
for Us and joy for ever more.
If character dies, 1t is the catastro-
phG OF the universe, the failure Of ere
alton, the fall Of the Godhead and the
enforcement of chaos. Then the phys
IcaI becomes grander than the spirit
ual. The seQuoias of the Yosemite and
the rocks from which they grow, be-
come nobIer than man, the MASTERPIECES
of God
Ian MacLaren once said: Let us re
inforce this world with the world
which Is to come"
Lift off the roof from your low, mar
row cottage, let the higher world in.
The soul needs air from it's native
skies.
Think of the millions who have sin,
poverty, want disease, loss. bereave-
ment and unnamed secret trials for
their portion In the present life.
Though a multitude of philanthropies
are organized to relieve such suffering,
Gods miShtiest philanthropy the hope
OF eternal life, is greater than all hui
manitariau agencies and alone makes
life worth living.
Robert Ingersoll said he did not be-
He'e in living here on skim milk that
he might have cream in heaven, but
Paul explained: 81 have suffered the
loss of all things that I might win
Christ and the crown" Jesus himself
endured the cross for the joy that was
Set before him. and now awaits our
coming to his many mansioned home,
where we may have life more album
dainty"
Tins world cannot satisfy the long
l's> Of the soul any more than a cage
can satisfy a bird with wings. Life
IS truly called a voyage, a journey, a
dressing room, a vestibule, and there
lore must have destination, home,
palace in the capital city of all
worlds