The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-12

scheme of life and death working to-
Sether. life is not only built I'D TO hui
man form, but on the mind side of
life the great needs have been con-
served and pushed fOrward-a con-
slant resurrection Of reason. reSur-
rection of beauty, resurrection of
moral thought and order.
Sometimes life on its mind side. its
spirit side, has seemed TO die and 10
lie IN the grave not only for three
days but for many, many years. The
culture of the Greek mind lay N the
tomb FOR more than 1t thousand years
out It was reborn, had to be reborn
! he order. such as il was, of the old
world utterly disa ppeared in the
dark ages, but Ii was born again with
the incoming of the medieval and sub
sequent time And this process of life
reclOthing itself mot talking about
bodies of flesh now, but life on the
higher mind-Spirit Side) of life re
clothing itself in the higher forms OF
higher word. liberty coming up
from the grave of dPspOtiSm. human
lty rising out Of selishnesS. a resur-
rectiOn going on in our own country.
What does all this trouble mean every
where, this effort for the inner forces
-
self a body that will clothe the es-
sence, the spirit. a form of govern
ment that Will be just, an order Of
humanity that will be humane, a world
OF reason clear as the localized light
OF million SunS-this is the reSurrec-
tiOns going on all the time Yet our
poor world stands off and weeps and
prayS and asks: With what body
shall We Gomez"
Life is itself body in a finer sense.
and the life that has clothed itself
for countless thousands of years can
be trusted to recIothe itself and re-
garment itself in the beauty of the
celestial spheres 1t has been slow.
hard work for our tOiling world to-
come to this standpoint. Not all have
reached it yet. Many are looking in
to the empty tomb to find Christ. but
the voice says: He is not there, Hei
is risen" To the mind world it will
be as great vision as was the new
astronomy. 1t viii take this great
painful question of death out of the
realm of the accidental. 1t will giVeI
il its place in the great order of thel
ever-becOming of life. The cares of
age will come. Physical decline, phys ,
ical death, will come. but the time
is near now to many when it is not
death, not the enemy, not the de-
stroyer, but the rebirth of the spirit
into some higher form of being That
is the new vision of this subject, this
continuous resurrection of life. and
there is for you here-fOr yOu-the
glad news and thrill of life o nits
higher planes. The risen Christ now
rising up in the consciousness of the
world. and rebirthS and resurrections
of reason, the reclOthing itself or
beauty and truth. the becoming even
in higher forms of the great human
and divine life.
Have you felt the resurrection pow
err of the living God? If so. live for the
things that are higher. live with great
assurance. I tell you this new vision
of the world of life is the most power
full argument ever offered. We can af-
ford to give up all other arguments in
favor of the continuity of life Can il
be that life that has never died but
is always rising. can it be that life
that has risen all the way from the
lower to the higher and now stands
out in the life and love of GOd-that
life itself can die? Oh. No. no. no, II
is eternal. That is the emphasis of
this doctrine of resurrection. the
problem Of Immortality. the cOntinu-l
Gus rebirthS and riS1ngS OF the 'lltei
within. Reason stands by its sidei
and gladly says: Il am only a child
vet l have only turned few pages
God made the endless years to go on.
and up" says God made the eterni-
ties" And Love. the very essence or
life and of God Himself. says: Let
me live on, let me go where the loved
ones live, let my feet stand upon the
shores whence they are calling me tol
come, let me go where loved ones live,
let my feet stand upon the shores
whence they are calling me to come.
ct me have the Forever" y
Then. go, live for the things that arel
above. where the risen Christ is en-
-hroned This is the correlation of
life in its higher planes.
Prayer: May Thy truth come to US.
y God Into our darkness may there
'Ome light. into our death may thereI
come life May we go in gladness
rom this place, risen ourselves with
Christ, go forth to preach the resur-
-ection of Jesus in a great world and
i've in the JOY of life forever. Amen.