The Mena weekly star., 1912-05-16

Qon to a star"
This has been invaluable TO
struggling youths.
This has been an inspiration to
many boys and girls, and thank
God that he said it and rejoice that
! it has accomplished so much good
in the world.
However, / want to change the
verbiage a little. and say to you
today, Hitch your souls to Jesus
Christ
If you would be great States
man, be a Christian.
If you would be a great physi-
clan, be a Christian
If you would be a great Lawyer,
be a Christian.
II you would achieve the higher
things and accomplish Gods will in
your creation, dedicate yourselves
TO his service.
| pray that from this student
body and graduating class there
may come many great women, like
Francis Willard or Queen Victoria,
land many great men, like William
Mckinley or the immortal Glad
stone.
We next behold the presence Of
two heavenly visitors.
There appeared unto them
Elias, with Moses, and they were
talking with Jesus"
This verse unfolds TO us some Of
| the richest, sweetest and most
comforting doctrines Of our holy
Christianity.
Moses had been dead about fif-
teen hundred years.
Almost nine hundred years had
elapsed since the Translation of
Elijah, yet they were still living.
Primarily, then, this verse teach
es the doctrine of immortality.
This is at once the richest and
Imost comforting doctrine of all the
galaxy of doctrines taught by Jesus
Christ.
How dark this world would be if
death ended all.
Despite the lapse of centuries,
| Moses and Elijah were living still.
| Let time do its worst, we shall
survive the ravages of death and
| the tomb.
| Upon the teachings of this lesson,
come to every sOrrowing heart to-
day and declare to you that your
| loved ones are living still.
| They have not ceased to be.
There is no DEATH the stars go
| down
| TO rise upon some fairer shore,
| And bright in heavens jeweled
| They shine forever more.
There is no DEATH an angel form
| Walks over the earth with silent
| tread;
He bears our best loved things
away,
And then we call them dead.
1.-THE bird-like voice, whose joyous
| Made glad these scenes of sin and
strife,
lSings now an everlasting song,
| Amid the trees of life.
Ever near us, though unseen,
The dear immortal spirits tread
For all the boundless universe is
life;
There are no dead.
The ancients did not believe
There was another world.
| So confident were they Of this
that they placed this inscription on
the rocks of Cape Nun: Ne Plus
| Ultra" more beyond; but one
day the intrepid Columbus sailed
Tout through the Strait of Gibralter
and out by way of Cape Nun, and
across a trackless ocean, and dis
covered this new world, thereby
lproving the falsity of the inscrip-
| ton.
| They then erased me" and the
Inscription read Plus Ultra
lmore beyond.
| / can conceive of a time when
men might have doubted the ex-
| istenee of another life-bu one
| day Jesus Christ came down from
the shining courts of glory, out by
way ofathe manger and Gethse-
lmane, and the cross and sepul-
Ichre, but on the morning of the
| third day he arose triumphantly
lover death and the grave, thereby
| demonstrating to Us that there is
another life.
Hear me today
Man is immortal.
Dust thou art TO dust returneth
| Was not spoken of the soul"
| You and shall live forever.
| Upon the tombstones Of our de-
| parted dead with the index finger
lpointing upward, we can place this
| inscription, plus Ultra" be-
yond, and with faith in a risen anc
| assembled Christ confidently expect
to meet them again.
i We desire to make further OBJ
servation.
Despite the lapse of centuries
Moses nor Elijah had neither LOST
their identity.
Their individuality had been pre-
served Moses was Moses still,
Elijah was Elijah still.
From this | gather this preciou,
| thought. my loved ones and yours
who long years ago went away
from rs have not lost their indi-