The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-11

made Jesus Christ, a peasant without
the advantages Of the schools, say two
thousand years ago. This is life eter-
nal, to know Thee" To me this be-
lief in my sonship to God, and conse-
quent inheritance Of immortality. has
always seemed the more reasonable as
s BEING : the ss great revelation evea Ct the
never been to me a pantheistic rela-
tionship. 1t is only that i have some
of his nature. somewhat as a father
and his child are related on earth. L
do not expect to be reabsorbed. do
expect to grow more like him whom I
can breathe his atmosphere and feed
on him. In some closer communion
than U faith here. much less our
knoWledge, permits so long as We. are
hampered by physical bodies.
Among my patients once was a
burglar who had broken his neck by
falling through a glass roof on to q
stone floor after jumping across a side
alley. He was practically dead from
the neck down. But life fingered on,
and he used to regale US with long
yarns of his escapades. OF course, If
he ever recovered he would be a re-
formed character. or. as he put it,
give up the profession" For months
he appeared to live in his head alone.
Gradually control over his various or.
gans returned to him. In six months
he once more inhabited his whole
body. Indeed. a few months later I
saw him again in the Old Bailey, be-
ing tried for q return to professional
life. ~
On another ecc..or i, ..
for eight days apparently dead. She
lay IN a complete cataleptic state, and
neither spoke. moved. ate, nor appear
ed even to breathe. She was arrayed
in her burial clothes-her jaw tied up
with the customary death. napkin.
She was properly laid out as. dead.
Today she is alive and well, and
she was she all the time. 80
Ny own relationship to. the Christ.
up to the time I IA twenty years Of
age. was only the same as that to any
other historical person. For the past
twenty-five years I have been endeaV-
oring to follow him. The result Is
| that today 1t would seem a base act of
t~reachery to him were 1, without more
reasons tina have yet been advanced,
20 dou the story of his resurrection.
experience has convinced me that this
faith is too valuable an. asset here to
ne wantonly thrown aside. After all,
are not the reasons for doing so too
often caused by the will, and not by
intellect? 1t makes great de-
nlands ON lite. this faith in immortaN-
~ as Christ teaches 1t. Moreover. the
Willingness to accept the responsibility
is so frail and unsta bic in ali Of rs
that through all the days. We, too. have
70 pray. Stir up. we beseech thee. O
Lord. the Wills Of thy faithful peopie."
When now again I read over the
STORY OF the resurrection as told by a
doctor. a fisherman, a scribe, and a,
political servant in the four Rospels.
! see no inherent reason for disbeiiev-
ing 1t. The ecclesiastical party Of that
1as Would have stopped at nothing to
aIscredit II. They were not altogether
tomb. newly hewn in the solid rock.
D positively. procured q Roman
guard to watch It. to whom failure in
DUTY meant inevitable death. Thus
they set at least the best certificate
Mhleh mortal man could on the gem
uineness Of the accounts. And they
aid this against their will. Even the
uUI NO. ot the poor women who came
with their offerings, that they could
not possibly roll the heavy stone nm
me NIL by themselves. is n subtle point
OF these gospel historians to have in
vented. They had all that time but
poor payment to expect for their ex-
t~taordinary zeal in lying, II the whole
story We're an invention. The historic
Gai continuity Of the great body Of be-
levers In the resurrection is to me an
additional evidence.
a while 8 ! spent some twenty-
our hours floating on the great At.
iantlc ocean on a small pan of ice.
on which had crawled out Of the
tIeezing water. No picture was form-
ca on my retina Of a single living soul.
however. l slept peacefully through a.
large part OF the night. in the abso-
Lutte conviction Of an unseen p%rasence.
and OF something better before me.
1t 1t should be behind the sun
wnich rose in the morning gloriously
from beyond the boundiess horizon.
i once took Mtka sematimba.
fourth chief OF Uganda, who was on a
s!s't 10 england. to see some skating
On Hm q iarse He said nothing at
home letter Of his in which hs sisted
That he had seen water turned into
stone, and had actually walked upon
II. some people believe that water is
amnihtlated when 1t is. ev~aporated.
n merVelous and the unintsliigible
happens every day all around us.
Experience teaches that no ma by
ShS Vi uuuu6u NISS
dom has yet unearthed an areument
for Immortality from which no human
peinE, clinElng to some shrede OF
oount. can apparently escape. But
neither has n such been found for
eating meat. or for not wearing hob
oled skirts. What statistics Of lives
would convince a Christian Scientist
OF value Of antitoxin for his babe
suffering with diphtheria, or induce
an ant.vaccinationist to como and
worship with me ut the shrine Of Jen.
or Pasteur? TO me 1t 10 a sign.
OF feebleness when a preacher OF Jul
Immortality searches through dusty
tones for the confirmation Of q life
long intuitive faith. WI approve the
wisdom Of q Sherlock Holmes none
tho leas because from slender indica.
tons he draws great conclusions,
which give him power to perform
mighty deeds.
The wisdom Of the bible. as I hear
men argue. seems to AFFORD ever more
and more claims to my confidence in
Its reliability. "our bodies shall re-
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