Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-12-02

The gate leading 10 eternity. our
thoughts are no longer in the mazes
OF a dream, but Immediately become
a fixed reality. Therefore, the world
finds pleasure in keeping in view the
Christian thought that Christ died.
was buried, arose from the dead
and brought, as ST Paul says. I'm
mortality TO light"
Before the Christian era men only /
philosophical. Plato Aristotle and \
Epicurus and others laid down sys- 4
TENS Of religious thought, kind, good I
and noble, but the light needed To 1
soften and subdue the passions and /
appetites Of men, to hold out a /
torch 10 show the pathway beyond. |
leading upward and onward TO the
city OF God, was wanting. The beau
ties Of poetry, the charms OF rhetor-
ic, the grandeur and glittering splen-
doris Of imagination. painted pictures
which cleared the intellect. but lack
ed the food which fed the soul or
gave JOY TO hope Therefore. that
age could only seek in mountains. or
mausoleums, or carved marble on
the canyassed picture. or the weird
dreams Of q pautheistic mythology
% satisfy the immortal longing OF
man
Egypt had her hopes and dreams
I and in hieriglyph. and pyramids Of
stone, and cities and monuments of
granite and marble or the silent Wis
age Of the Sphinx and in bodies EN-
! balmed IN lasting cerements, these
people sought TO hold in the loving
/ embrace Of time. lfe's last spark
but they knew not as we that God
knows not death that life has 10
end
The Greeks and Romans had vast
Icatacombs where reposed in clay. or
| crypt, or tomb or urn. the bodies Of
! the dead. and here architecture and
art. sought with the hand of affec
i tion 70 keep alive the life which they
knew and saw bat the vast beyond
| the eternity 10 come. was only q
dream chiseled III marble OF made
melodious in poetry or wrought into
the imagery of forest. or storm or
cloud. or mountain height, or dark
ened with the shadows which they
did not understand All was doubt
The early people Of America, bott
north and south leave the tumult o.
past generations, where history hai
failed It's records. as evidences o
their dreams: but all. aye! all lacl
THE knowledge which came through
and by the Christ. that there is n,
death and so We in this age ant
day can attend our Easter WORSHIP
and services and feel and know tha
Immortality for man is a fact
: What that Immortality shall be
each must answer Life has It's joy
and sOrrows one compensates tn
other But life may be good or
may be bad We create our stat
of being for ourselves We are tn
product of thought We build as W
think The sum of our being
the sum Of our thoughts, and IN
4 way we think makes or mars IN
: eternity to come.
r "Sow thought and YOU reap an act
Sow an act and you reap a habit,
Sow a habit and You reap a chara'
ter.
Sow a character and you reap
destiny"
Therefore you are not as we leari
tW iN our HtA0bt uHA - NAlAf AlN q
lohiteets Of your own fortune" b.
YOU are the architects Of your ow
future destiny
You cannot hide the truth nc
laugh il away The thief and chea
= and murderer. is not changed
death; he viii be a thief cheat an
: murderer because, as "ye SOW. 5
shall We reap Your only hope lie
J in that reformation which the Chris
ian religion holds out TO men. Their
fore. this day brings to us lessor
OF reflection, and | hope with yo
that we may all
$50 live, that when thy summon
comes TO join
= The innumerable caravan whi'
moves
TO that mysterious realm where ea'
shall take
His chamber III the silent halls
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