Arizona republican., 1911-06-05

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 was moving, thrXIng. acting. feeling. dominated by will and mind. to declare
 that all this has perished and decayed with the outward house which it once inhabited. The machine has refused
 longer to do it's work The spirit
 which moved 1t to love and to do. to think and to feel, is no longer mani fest, and where has it gone? Can it live apart from its home? Can it ex- ist elsewhere in all Gods universe, apart from the body which has served It so long? Hitherto there has been no other manifestation of it's life. Is it not of the earth earthly. and has it not returned with the body to it's moth CT dust? The beauty and the life of the rose disappear in the ashes be- fore us, leaving only the memory of a fragrance and a charm which once existed but is now forever gone. Is it not so with the life of man? This is the teaching of materialism, which for gets that there is a higher law than the law of physics, which overlOoks the fact of the spiritual world. while it is absorbed with the natural world, into which error you must surely fall un- less you believe in mems higher nature as well as their power, unless you have faith in humanity as well as in God
 To this belief in immortality, as it was called by the ancient pagan world. to this belief in eternal life, as Jesus Christ calls it, you must come through a faith that is reasonable as well as positive.
 I need not tell you of the reaction that even now has set in against scien- tific materialism in these opening years of the twentieth century. The leaders of mankind. the great intellectual and moral forces in the world today, as they have gone far away from that atheism that would deny the existence of God, have also risen above the doubt and denial of mans ccr tinued and eternal life. It need not point ut the evidence of history which is brought by its records for the accept ance of this truth, the universal testi- mOny of mankind to this great fact appearing constantly and progressively in it's long and eventful history. It was seized hold of and firmly though im- perfectly held by Greek philosopher and Roman sage. by the wise men of the far eastern world, as well as the later Hebrew prophets. Its consum- nation was reached when God spoke the divine word in his son, Jesus Christ, whose message we accept, clear and convincing, for one reason because the hostile and severe criticism of nine teen hundred years has failed to shake the evidence that is brought to sustain the reality of his being and the truth of his words and works.
 But to the personal revelation of light and eternal life which he pre- sented by his power over the grave. on his resurrection morning, we must add the deepest munitions and passionate longings of our own hearts. which in sist with a treason that reason knows not Of," as Paschal, the great spiritual thinker of France, has put it, in assert ing the supremacy of the personal identity, the ego over sense and mat ter You all know from many strange experience of your own how your in stinct, your intuition, your conscience, Gods spirit speaking in you has led you to a right conclusion and judgment when logic and reason have failed you.
 Honestly and candidly, how is it pos sible for us to identify this force that we recognize within us with the ma terial body in which it lives? It is Gods image stamped upon our physical life and it cannot be removed. faded and stained though the inscription be by the grossly material Ives which we may lead.
 If we would look upon that image perfect and undefiled, if we would know the full revelation of Gods truth in we have only to turn to the man in whom alone the voice of God 1 has spoken with absolute truth and | and this is the reason why l the great fact of the incarnation, as | we call it. has become not only the | of the Christian religion l and the divine institution of the church 1 which he established. but the central | truth and fact of all life.
 Follow thou me" is the command. ]