Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1911-02-09
Is Life Worth
Living :?
By REV. +. NJ HuBsKlL
Passss Of Congregational Church
May ,ills. N D.

IN ny SNut Is weary Ot NV %
AZ one time job. with large happy
family had lived ia comfort surround.
I'd BY docks and herds and great album
dance Rut calamity after calamity
tell upon him The Sah.ans carried
m his oxen tho lightning fell upon
his sheep. the Chaldeans took away
III, canels. IA storm buried his SONS
under fallen Building he himself
ioafhsoule sores And lob began Ia
wish that he WAS dead perhaps ha
even thought OF committing suicide
but calamity stricken Job is only
one OF vast multittldc who crushed
10 earth by the rclrntless weight OF
adversely have ckcd out miserable
existence, while perhaps the mind has
been crowded With thoughts OF SELF
arstrMeuou We are moved therefore
TO ask with job OF old and with thu
poor wretch the trugcal ending OF
whose Me is noted in last uight pa.
pc,
Now ones ANSWER 10 this question
depends. not 81 much upon Tho cspe
rienccs. painful and pl.,surnhlc.
through which he passes AS upon tho
Significance which he attaches II, those
experiences This IA con, lnslyeiy
shown from tho fact that from no
quarter are the answers uniform
out OF similar conditions one be.
walls existence white another reJolves
III II From tho fires OF persecution
there comes back To our question now
positive negative. now As possible
an Affirmative. and again mere uucs
ti"n point Such different estimates
OF life grow out of mans ,uidA
mental beliefs they seem often To de
pend absolutely upon his experiences
the experiences often affect III. be.
lirfs but a man philosophy OF lifs
is the determining factor
One man declares there is no God
another believes In the Ghlisi rove.
tatiun Of God and they reach differ
ent conclusions Az 20 whether HE ~
worth living
Take the first man who denies tho
existence of a personal God Then. for
volitiunal rauso for his existence HIS
own mental and heart powers are siuir
ply unique products ul such materials
and forces III food water light. air.
heat and electricity He Is bui u cren.
tnlc Of circumstances. developed from
a material thing call IL protuplas.
iniv germ into II scnllenl being that
lunscrs and thlrsts. suffers physical
pam. writhes I'm mental agony
Moral responsibility IL excluded !.
there q no moral source Tor it nn
higher moral 10 be h.ld responsible to.
Iten there's no obligation resting up
ON The strong To regard the weak thu
4 midnight rutsian Is Az Innocent ;;s thu
! babe he murders. gruvcling millions
recting God means no directing pur
pose To endure for "A time Is of MT
avail. for Immortality has no mean
The soul Ia but IA tigment of the mag
inAtion Imagination is but IA bubble
, oozinE out OF brain tissue human
s love merely tho effervcacencs which
:, pusscs on from chemical reaction
The bald pessiminism OF Won Hart
man and Schopenhnuer Is IA widely ac
: eeptcd doctrine OF life today Noi
Hartman finds no purpose In history
progress simply increases mans con
, sciousness of the vanity OF lite Schop
enhauer says 10 live Ia TO desire
10 desire IL to Wnnt to want rs To sui
s fer. hence, to live liz To suffer.
IN
\ the conviction that God lives am
n reigns What answer, then. does tn
man make who knows only the stern
. relentless God discoyerable from ia
tufe9 THIS man admits controiin
I. purpose The apparent inyariablenes
Il Of natural law seems shut out the POI
sibility ~ special Providence Thong
his whole nature cries ont 10 God !
ri prayer he has no assurance OF bein
heard And he feels the burden I
S sin with no hope OF mercy tonscicno
cries out his guilt, swift penalties TAI
ing when ply steal law is violated su
eea dire consequences Tor the vol
ion Of moral law
To square himself With an angr
!, God he mutilates his body. eonsisi
n his children to the flames. expects
q become an Ixyon bound 10 "a rcyolYii
Wheel. Tantalus with an insatiab
~ thirst To drown the voice % 90
science he plunges INTO dissipation
throws himself into the turmoil
trade and yet conscience speak
4, II.. tries To fulfill its beiiests but u
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