Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-03-31


| while cresds have no, always en-
pressed the doctrine OF the fesufrec
ton. yet the universal world.hesr
throbs with hope Of life beyond tn,
valley and the shadow. The one In,
conceivable thing in the spirit. world
10 life independent OF body. Life
seeks its habitstion. Just 40 easily
nigh, We conceive OF the llfe.eern
apart from the grain OF wheat as "a
think OF the conscious spirit apar.
from ice bodily tenement. Christisni.
~ stands or falls with the resurreetion
the great central fact Of ell oar Easter
festivities. True. we must
Weep awhile, ye are fsin-
Sunshine siill must follow rain;
Only not st death, for death,
Now ] know, 10 that firs, breath
Which our sools Jaw when We enter
Life. which IL OF ell life. center"
At the open grave. on this Esster
day, the race stands peering into the
dim and distant future. II asks the
question: How are the dead raised
%, and with what body do they
Gomez" There never has been bot one
recorded answer TO this great query: :
Thou sowest net that body that shsll
be. but bare grain; IL may chance OF
wheat, or OF some other grain" II re-
,qnires no impossible feat OF the human
mind to understand that physical
changes may he wrought without effect
on the realm OF spirit. I. 10 said that
the throbbing heart undergoes radical
change in specified time Anstomists
tell ne that the body passes through q
perfect mesamorphoss within q term
OF years, and yet identity 10 ondis-
toFbed. Here 10 the supreme thought
in the Christian faith. It may have
heen aoother-that resurrection body.
But the nsil-prints and the clefted
eide were tangible evidences that
stssdied the faith OF Thomas. When
! reach the land OF the good. among
all the blood. washed throng ] may not
find the flesh and blood OF my ssinted
dead. But, iust as the new grain OF
wheat is not different from the old
long since dead, go shall I recognize
my loved snd lost in all that Summer
land Of flowers.
Subscription 10 q specified creed. or
10 no creed at all. seems not to have
these glesmtngs Of the inn
mortal life. Cicero. the majestic ora
Tor and silver-tongue among the Ro,
nans. said long ago: There 10,
know not how. in the minds OF men. q
,ertain pressge, a. 10 were. OF q future
existence; and this takes deepest rooS
Ind 10 the most discoverable in the
greatest geniuses and the most exalted
Iouls." Dryden, whose verse 10 not
llwsys in tuue with the Infinite, said
'sure there Is none but that fears q
future state
md when the most obiurate swear
they do Moth
Their trembling hearts belle their
Boosting tongues"
Colonel Robert @. Ingersoll 10 said
o have been an sgnostic. He was so
,rch- doubter. After every truth-any
roth Inexpensive to human sense
ie placed the eternal interrogation
,oint. HE creed lsy within the mar.
'ow boundaries Of "I KNOW" IL.
.ersoll's diction was like poem; HE
thought a dream OF beauty. Listen TO
hi. period pronounced by him &C the
pen grave OF HE brother: HE be.
ieved that happiness was the only
rood, reason the only torch, justice
he only worship, humanity the only
eligion, and love the only priest. He
Idded 10 the sum OF human Joy; and
we're everyone TO whom he did o low
ng service 20 bring a blossom to his
rave, he woold sleep tonight beneath
vilderne. Of flowers. Life 10 a mar
ow vale between the cold and bsrren
,esks Of two eternities. We strive in
ain to look beyond the heights. We
nv sloud. and the only answer 10 the
sailing echo Of our cry. From the
lips Of the opreplyiDg dead
here comes no word bus in the night
how's This7