Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-20

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ed up and they earnestly hoped that
of it. Faith places the spirit under the
sovereignty of things not seen: gives
substance, reality definiteness to them.
IF we truly celebrate this old day
if our hearts are taken captice by the
message which it brings. we do not
doubt that we shall rise from the
grave, and find at last, the treasures
(human loves) we have sent before us
into Heaven. Whatever your theory or
mine Of the resurrection, we will hold
fast TO the truth, that there is not
break in life. We will not cease ever to
exist but live on, though we go out
frcm here to enter there. Without this
book we would be helpless. The gospel
is a message Of life. The New Testa-
ment reveals what nature and science
cannot manifest. The thing that makes
physical death terrible is the uncer-
tainty as 10 it's after meaning. We need
the sixth sense of the Christian, the
only clairvoyant faculty that has
righteous use, so that we may per-
ceive the things not seen and eternal.
1t is the invisible things which are
real. But not until we are in a spiritual
mod do we realize this. We must be
baptiZed in the waters Of religion, in
order to get into the spiritual depart
ment of the soul. Our buried joys are
still joys; they have not ceased to eff
feet our hearts. They are planted in
the cemeteries, but like flowers they
bloom to delight us with their fra
GRANGE and beauty. They speak to us.
And like the oft-returning birds, they
sing to us each Eastertide.
ga monastery in Switzerland for
merly owned a magnificent organ. On
the occasion of an expected invasion,
the monks carried their treasure to a
ncighboring swamp and buried it,
thinking to recover it later. The exact
spot where it reposed could not be To-
Gated. The Swiss peasants have a
legend that once in every seven years,
ut midnight. the organ rises out OF the
swamp and the tender notes of a SYM
phony :remble on the air and it's
mighty tones sweep along the aisles
of the forest and wake the sleepers in
the distant hamlet So from the graves
and tonbs, where forms we love re-
pose, voices familiar and sweet, voices
of affection and assurance and hope,
come to us today. And the notes Of
that buried organ woke the sleeper
in the distant hamlet, so the tones Of
those voices we have loved for many
year, awake the sleeping energies
of our souls and we are inspired to
perpetuate in ourselves what made
them worthy here and brought them
again beyond.
at is not possible that we should
come to complete development in this
world. We are ignorant and weak. Yet
now are we sons and daughters of the
Almighty We are of royal ancestry;
we are children of the King. Then let
your imagination soar TO its utmost;
let it fly away IS fast as it may and
take in the whole horoscope of the uni
verse, but it doth not yet appear what
We shall be-
Rev. c. w. Bradlee was born in Ros-
ton. Mass. in 1850. He was educated
in the common schools of Boston and
at Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham
and later at the Northwestern Univer-
sity of Illinois. At the university he
tok 4 course in the liberal arts and
theology. While pursuing his studies
he supplied pulpits in the Chicago
Rock River Conference and later he
supplied at Conway, N. H. Mr.. Brad
lee has held pastorates at the Congress
street church, Portland, at Biddeford,
Alfred, Westbrook. Augusta, Rochcs-
ter and Concord. N. H., st. Johnsbury.
VT. Rockland and in 1903 was called
10 tho Mnthndict church IN, Not
Mr. Bradlee is a Mason, and in his de-
nomination holds many positions of
trust He is trustee of the Maine Con-
ference. and while in New Hampshire
was trustee of the New Hampshire
Seminary at Tilton. He is also one of
the trustees of the Deaconess Board of
Portland. and chairman of many i'm
portant committees. He has twice
been appointed visitor to the WESLEYAN
Association from the Maine Confer
ence, as we'll as Being appointed Wis
ltnr to Boston University and other
schools Of his denomination. Three
times he has been offered the presiding
eldership Of the Maine Conference. Mr.
Bradlee is speaker of great energy
and ability and has given many public
addresses in various parts of the coun
try. With the exception of the year of
1907. Mr.. Bradlee has regularly deliv-
cred Memorial day addresses for the
past Il years. He is frequently called
upon to give his popular addresses on
"Punctual People, MASKS and
Faces" APES and Parrots" "The
worlds Trio of Faiths" which have
delighted large audiences. He is con-
sidered one Of the leading preachers IN