The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-27


OUT spiritual hopes with physical con-
sioeratlons, drawing differences con.
corning unseen things from things
seen. AS has been seen. in
Inc world of mate ial or
ganlsms, each lower form paves
ue way for higher. Tie pro.
tozoa are the prophecy of all animal
me- they are the true Adam in
winch all die to be made alive again
by the power of resurrection that
reaches even to the lowest. Tse ordi-
IN Its day to hold the potency of the
present marvelously complex orders
OF terrestrial existence, to foreshadow
all that lives, must We not think that
the human creature, consummate
hover OF the earth, final term of the
biological ages, first manifestation OF
the spiritual order, is also prophetic
CT far sublimer things to come? The
Indications warrant our faith in i'm
mortality, and some CLEAN of the
truth there is in every statement of
the doctrine though doubtless all are
more or less clouded with
error. We shall be changed,
we are told. The body with
which we shall come is without
semblance to this mortal body. That
which thou sowest is not brought to
life unless it die; and what thou SOW.
est, not the body that shall be dost
thou SOW, but a bare grain" That is,
the life that is given up Is but
speck, single kernel, bare grain.
of the yaster life that is to be. The
standing wheat, waving in the golden
glory of the harvest. is not more I'M
like the buried seed it sprung from,
or the eagle, soaring to the sun, more
unlike the egg in which it's life first
throbbed, than the life to come is I'm.
like the present life, if we are to give
any force to the analogies of nature.
1t is pretty fancy that death is only
as nights sleep, that we wake again
unchanged in the eternal morning, but
the rejecting person may be permit
ted to think it altogether misleading
The change is more profound, we may
be sure; is only family limited
by the metamorphosis of the
CRYSTALS to the butterfly; in
| any possible future being We shall
be even more unlike our present
selves than that gorgeous winged
thing is unlike the worm from VIII Oh
lit came.
The word beyond which no word
has ever gone is st doth not appear
| what we shall be-
| OF one thing We may be sure, the
order OF this universe is a good order.
In that order our lives and the life
to come are inwoven, and SO what
comes to us is for the best be it what
it may. Excessive anxiety about our
future betrays sad want OF trust in
the Divine Providence. Fret as we
will. we can change nothing; that
|,Whichsis appointed to us will come;
and even if We could change the di-
vine order, it could only be for the
worse. Our coming into this world
and our going out of it, the whence
and the whittier, are things arranged
for US, not by us. If by any means
it should be discovered that death is
an eternal sleep, the highest faith
would still say, 1T must be better
SO, since it is so. Whatever God has
ordained is for the best That is a
faith which has power to give rest;
and it is faith that finds abundant
warrant in reason and observation
Have We not witnessed enough of the
gracious order of Providence to trust
ourselves to its keeping? Shall not
confidence in the Divine ordering give
us courage to descend into darkness
i into whatever tremendous sea OF
cloud, or sail over blue seas, sure
i however it may fare with us, all is
we'll with Gods world? That is the
faith we need When we have achiev
ed that triumph, and can say: Il an
ready to perish utterly or willing tc
live OH if that is the way appointed,
we have attained the condition of per
feet peace, and | see not how in these
days it can be attained otherwise
The indications of immortality vii
then be freed from disturbing per
sonal element, and will give each it.
own just measure of comfort A Law
of the spirit is, that he who loses his
life for the sake of a greater thing vii
find it. The faithful soldier dies 70,
his country, and grateful people
suffer not his memory TO perish, they
tell over forever the story of tina
sacrifice The hero who fails out
lives thousand times the recreaa
who escapes! So in the sometime.
equal perils of peace, he who stands
to his post and counts not his owl
life too dear a price to pay for the
safety of others committed to his
charge, dies only TO live in hallowec
and perpetual remembrance. Wher
those he has saved are forgotten dust
his name and his deed will still bt
fresh on human lips quickening 9th
er souls to generous ardor. Thus t.
die is always to bring life and inmor
talit yto light. He who tries to save
his life through any shrinking from
duty loses it; but he who 'oses his
life in fidelity to high purpose, saves
Jc th;z MOI ouuo1ify n,