Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-11-08
WILLIAM ]. BRYAN
ON IMMORTALITY

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I Ii is pleasant for me to believe i'm
resurrection. / have no more doubt
that shall live again THIN have
that live today, have no more
doubt that l shall in another world
meet those of whom have loved
than l have that l have known them
! here. | do not know just what kind
of body | am going to have-and |
l do not care. have seven already
according to the scientists. The sci
entists say that the body changes
every seven years-if that is true, |
now have my eighth. had a baby $
body. then boys; then had young
man s body. and then changed again
and again and again. do not know
what kind of body God is going to
give me i'll the next world, but can
trust Him, and | waste 10 time
specializing. He can give me any of
the bodies i have had if He wants To.
and will do the best | can to us il ::
hut know that he will give me the
kind of body need. There is an in
visible something in grain of wheat
that can discard the body that we see.
and from earth and air build new
body, so much like the old one that
we cannot tell the one from the ether.
and know that, if that invisible
something in that grain of wheat can
pass unimpared through thousands of
resurrections, my body car clothe it
self with a body suited to its new
existence when this frame of mind
shall crumble into dust.
But ! find nowhere in the Bible
where Christ speaks of the physical
PROJECTIONS of this world being car
ried into the next. Neither do know
how much of my mind can take will
me. or how much of the knowledge
have acquired. l worked pretty hard
in school. My mother taught me until
was ten and then went to the pub
lie schools until was fifteen; and
then they sent me off to an academy
for two years, then to college for
four, and afterward to a law school
for two. and then they said was
through; and so commenced to
study in the school of lire-and !
have been studying ever since. have
learned something of science, n good
deal of history little poetry and
lots of politics. ! don't know what
can carry beyond. / do not know how
much of the story of the stars will
need over there. do rot know
whether the new songs will make me
forget the ones have learned here.
| do not know much about the future.
| am quite sure that there is great
deal that have spent much time on
tina. | will not need there. | have n
large accumulation of information on
issues and men that expect to leave ::
| am sure / shall not need it over
there. | do not know how much of
that which is intellectual in me will
survive the tomb-and do not care.
l have such faith in the wisdom of
the God, Who made both the heaven
and the earth, and am 80 well satisfied
that He made earth more wisely than
we could, that | am willing to leave
Him entire freedom in arranging
heaven for me. IL is enough for me
to know that in our Gathers house
are many mansions" ana that He
has gone to "prepare place" for us.
That is all / craze to know.
If Christ comes to give and to take
nothing away; If He comes to reveal:
if He comes to make us know how
much richer we are than we thought
if He comes to give us, aye, and to
multiply in us, the value of all VIC
had before; if He comes to teach us
how rur bodies can be made stronger
and better flied for our work, and
how our minds can be trained so as
to enlarge our capacity for service !;
and If He comes to show us the
glories of the world into which the
soul can lead us are above and beyond
the riches of the body and the mind
if He comes all this, is there any ex.
cuse for not accepting Him? If he
can add to the quantity of our lives
and then give permanence to that
which is best in US, is there any
reason why anyone should reject
Him?-William Jennings Bryan, In
Christian Century.