The Newtown bee., 1909-05-14

gether in pain to tell the angels message at the empty tomb, He is 't here, for He Is risen" The lime predicted by Christ had surely come when men had ceased to praise God, and the very stones were crying Ut. Was 1t any wonder then that 20 loved all inanimate life-that he lenderly handled every living thing, and listened to the messages of the flowers and the stones and the trees, that at night he stood enraptlred under the stars listening to the ans tlphonal praise of the Creator.
 "lilt up your heads, 0 ye gates, And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting
 doors,
 Nnd the King of glory shall come in. Who Is the King of glory?
 The Lord strong and mighty.
 The Lord mighty in battle.
 Lit up your heads, o ye gates.
 Yea, lift them up, ye everlasting
 doors,
 And tfe King of glory shall come in. Who Is this King of glory?
 ke Lord of hosts.
 II, is the King of glory.
 With the second surgical opera tion the professors mental life was raised a stage higher, and he be- came one with the lower animals. lie talked with horses and sheep and cattle of every sort, and they told him their secrets. He chatted with m )nkeys and apes and gorillas, and .ound that they were not such bad fellows after all. He hooted with the owls, sang with the birds, swan with the fish, bleated with the cattle and roared with the lions. And the testimony of one and all of these animals, though covered by a rough and hard exterior, was that of appreciation of God and thankful ness for all His benel.ts. Did you never notice," said the professor to his friends as he related this eyperi- ence, "that whenever you pat the dog on the head he looks up into your eyes with thankfulness plainly shining there; that whenever you stroke the kittens back, it immedi- ately begins to purr softly. Even the lions are trained by kindness and respond to every attention. From the tiniesr insect to the roaring lion there is constant recognition of the Creator and it is delight to live in such an atmosphere. What is re- garded as ferocity and cruelty among wild animals is natural instinct of preservation and ignorance of all outside cheir own species" And as these animals in their natural state laid themselves down and slept through the cold winter and awoke with the spring, they told me on emerging once more into life that this was the Creators way to teach them about the resurrection.
 From the moment that I recov- cred cor sciolsness after falling from my airship," said the Professor, "to this very Easter morning had con- tinually before me the lesson of the resurrection. And now here l am risen to the dignified life of humani- ty from the dead l thought 1 knew what matter was ten years ago, but now ] see it all so clearly. Matter is but the tool, the outward covering, of which Spirit is the soul, the work man. There is resurrection, and everything in Gods creation realizes it except man. o wretched, blind, self-deceiving man, must thou be cast from heaven to earth, or from earth to hell, to see what your weaker brothers see, the dumb beasts, the inanimate rocks, the senseless trees that ttere is resar- rection, and that Christ rose from the dead, and so will you, if you exercise faith to believe and follow Him.