The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-04-21
CEREMONIES AT ST. JOHNS
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Ritualistic Work Participated I'm BY
Members Of the Commandery;
Chanting BY the Choir.

SHdHtiIiy 0y tHt SHOITs
Angels, roll the rock away,
Death, yield up the mighty prey!
See, the Saviour quits the tomb,
Glowing with immortal bloom,
Christ the Lord is risen today.
Easter services of Mankato Com
mandery No. a, Knights Templar,
were held at st. Johns Episcopal
church yesterday afternoon at three
o'clock, where the beautiful Easter
ritualistic work was read by prelate
and Sir knights, and an address
given by Rev. p. X. Edwards.
About thirty Sir knights were i'm
line, marching from Masonic hall to
the church under command of Cap
tain General F. l.. Soaring The
members wore full Commandery uni
forms and made an attractive APP
pearance.
The Episcopal church was pref
tily decorated with palms, cut flow
ers and lilies. The vested choir rem
dered sweet music and assisted ma
terially in the service.
Rector P. K Edwards addressed the
Sir Knights, taking for his text, IL
Timothy: Our Saviour who has
brought life and Immortality to
light"
Address BY Rev. Edwards.
Rev. Edwards said in part: I'VE
will consider this text as having two
references; one for here and one for
the hereafter. Christ has brought
life to light for this world and i'm
mortality for the next world We
will consider the second reference
first.
THE immortality of the soul: the
life beyond the grave; the fact that
death is not the end of life. but
simply an incident that marks the
passing of the first life to the next.
Thus is a thought that is uppermost
in our minds on this day of Resur-
rection 1t is the custom nowadays
to decry this truth. Tell us. men
say, how to live now Give us re-
ligion of this life, and we do not
care about the hereafter. Have a
church talk more about today and
less about heaven and hell There
is truth in that have no SYM
pathy with the man or woman
who spends his time for the world
to come and doing nothing to make
want inspiration and strength to live
right here. to be true, honorable and
clean. We need not worry about
the other life, but the chief inspira-
ton to decent, clean living here is
the thought of the life TO be lived
hereafter-if ! am not immortal. If
/ | live here for few brief years and
then simply become annihilated.
what is the use of trying to be, or
to do anything-w is the use Of
struggling for self-control, or for the
higher things of life By being dis
Greet ] can plunge into sin; / can
cheat those who are more ignorant
than myself; Cypress the weak: live
any kind of life ] please, and gain
wealth. ease and pleasure, and get
no hurt from it.
The Life After Death.
I'VE cannot prove it in the same
way that we can prove five and five
make ten, but we can say this, the
fact that life is never actually dem
onstrated to our senses, is no proof
that it does not exist. We have
only five senses, and the universe
is remendous-infinite in its scope.
We dare not claim that we can
know the whole universe with those
five senses-we dare not say that
everything which we do not know
without our five senses is there
fore nOn-existent. Suppose we only
had four senses, and lacked hearing
all the wonder of sound would
be unknown to us. Our four senses
would not be telling us all there is
in the world. and we have every
reason to suppose that our five
senses are not telling us all there
is to know. If we cannot prove
automatically the life after death.
neither can we prove indisputably
has gone on day and night and fol
lowed each other, for no one knows
how many ages, but it may stop to-
morrow for all we know. There is a
rational probability that it will go
on, and we prepare for tomorrow on
that rational probability. not one
absolute certainty, and so we pre-
pare for the life to come; life after
death, and it seems TO me that the
probability of the future life is no
more shadowy or unreal than the
probability of tomorrow.
Rev. Edwards said that the day
calls upon all TO live for the here
after and also to work as soldiers
of Jesus Christ.
He IT, Made Administrator OF tho