Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-02-26

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~ gested by nature
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andFiA autumn we-reap the sane kind
% seed, The thing that continues In
tSs seed Is the ic~ii.ia!e VIZ force
TIE PARTICLES z,a: ~ i 1srens. a,.lt the
iifc Is the sane TIE temperance OF
this life In bed and leaf and flower at
least suggests that the life mental,
moral and spiritual In us may, continue
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The immortality the soul Is taught
by universal consciousness. The rude
savage believes in a future state. The
Indian buries with his comrade the
blanket. the bow ard arrow, believing
that he VIII need these things In the
happy hunting grounds OF the future.
Even modern infidelity does not deny
T. When the champion hiasphemer Of
AmsrkA stood over the corpse of HIS
brother he spoke of the star of hope
which the soul sees In the night. The
heart u sometimes Wiser than the
head sEgSs s'..-5s. .s3!I 2i{lf + ..,4a,t
Suggested By nature, taught by uni,
ysrsal consciousness, the immortality
Of the sodi Ia confirmed by sbserva-
tioa There are cases on record where
page aftsr page of foreign languages,
long forgotten. have been repeated by
mea on beds Of sickness. A friend told
me that when no was thrown from his,
horse and almost killed. the panorama
Of his past life came before him. I'M
pysssions that had faded from memory
while no was physically strong revived
during the time Of weakness. .a..e
A Rsaserabis Hope. ~2fy
i So Imagination Is sometimes most
brilliant when the body Is weakest, and
have known at least two or three
men whose reason was an vigorous just
q moment before they died ~ 1t ever
was In their days OF physical strength
II you have been In Mammoth cave
and stood ever the River Styx you will
remember that It disappears under the
cavern walls, Up TO the very point of
disappearance the current is swift Is
there . man On earth foolish enough
to suppose that there Is no river after
the swift current has disappeared?
Does he not believe. with conviction
that amounts to certainty, that the
river. though hidden. continues to flow
ON? And when up to tho point OF dy-
Ing we fad memory. imagination, rea-
son, love and conscience as strong. II
not stronger than ever before, 10 there
not presumption which amounts to a
conviction OF certainty that these fac
ulties of the soul will continue to live
after the body dies?
Established by hevsiatlsn.
The Immortality OF TIE soul, sug-
gested by nature. taught by universal
Consciousness and confirmed by obser-
vstion, In finally established by revela-
ton. The words Immortal" and i'm
mortality" occur SIX times In the Bible.
They are two words IN the Greek, one
OF which means .ttncorruptible" and
the other 'deathless." The word mean
ing 'incorruptible" is applied to God
himseif In / Timothy l:17 and is so
translated by the revisers In Romans
ST are the words: ITO them who by
patient continuance In well doing seek
FOR glory and honor and immortality,
eternal lif&- The revision correctly
renders Il ''ipeorruption," Which we
are TO seek diligently. In 2 Timothy
1:1e We are told that Christ hath
brought Hfe and interruption to light
through the gospel" He Is the one In
serruptibie being. The word which
means deathlessness occurs In / Tim
ethy sis and refers to the Lord Jesus,
who only hath immortality dwelling
In light which no man can approach
uate." Link this with Genesis 1925.
LET Nh mako man in our image after
cur likeness" and John I: and 3, The
Word was God" and AL things were
made BY him." and It "a plain that man
was created immcrtah God who only
hath Immortality created man In that
image and likeness. Sin did not de
styoy the Immortality which God Inn
parted In creation.
A pistInetiar. sf',I ir3~ 7's<ef'
The difference between immortality
and eternal life should be kept clearly
In mind. Immortality means everlast-
ING existence. but eternal life Is not I
everlastiag existence Dead things ex- ;
ist.. I can imagine a Ssone existing a
million years ~ dead then rs now.
Corpses exist. Men dead In trespasses
and sins On this side the grave exist,
and they will exist after death. One
does not bsgin really to live until he
has accepted Christ, but he exists Let
as accept the definition Of eternal life
which the Lord Jesus himself gave,
and this will clear away all misunder-
standing. Turn to lphn 1873: This Is
life eternal that they might know thee,
the only true God, and Jesus Christ
whom thoH hast sent" Eternal life is
knowing God through Jesus Christ. To
knew Cod Ia 70 i've: to refuse to know
0sA 10 to continus 10 exist in . state
OF death IL ,s,.5,.r, .eads .4.u