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ment along this line is very fine.


He cites other arguments of logical
differences" For instance. he says,
that a certain heated gas possesses
the quality of conductivity. Scent
lists know that this quality exists from
certain other experiments and causes.
That from certain necessary inferenc-
es from the known to the unknown
they know it to be reality, although
invisible to touch, sound or sight
Again, he says that no sane man To-
day rejects the truth of the uniform
ity of nature Suns rise and set,
moons wax and wane, tides ebb and
flow, and day follows night in unbrok-
en- succession, and we conclude, on
the theory of logical inference" that
this has been so from the beginning.
1t cannot be demonstrated, but the
scientific world agrees to regard it as
Then the distinguished divine ends
his argument as follows:
an established fact.
This now is what I mean by the
proof of immOrtality-a proof which
is as incontrovertible as any of those
proofs upon which rest the vast super
structure of modern science, and
which nobody thinks of questioning
and this is what is meant by all who
accept the doctrine of immortality as
a demonstrated reality. 1t is this
which explains Dr. Gordon's appar-
emily contradictory position, when he
opens his book on Immortality and
the New Theodicy" with the categori-
cal statement that we must surren-
der at the outset all hope of demon
stration," and closes 1t with the equal
" categorical affirmation that the hui
man reason registers its decree In IA
vor of the immortality Of the man!
It. il this which explains John Fiske's
peculiar attitude. He states emphat-
ically, as have told you, In his Life
Everlasting" that the conception OF
immortality Is unsupported by proof
and is utterly inconceivable. And yet
he states with even greater emphasis,
in his Destiny of Man." his personal
confession, 81 believe in the immortal
ity of the soul as a supreme act of
faith in the reasonableness of Gods
work" 1t is this conception Of proof
which James Martineau had in mind
when he made that marvelously illu-
minating statement-that we believe
in immortality not because it can be
demonstrated in experience, but we
are always trying to demonstrate it
because we must believe it! The con-
ception of Immortality is true, in the
same way that all the greater concep-
tions of modern science are true-true
because the integrity of the human
reason demands it's reality. And I for
one can never cease to wonder that
those very persons, who make the
greatest pretensions to being guided
by their reason, and who pretend to
place the most implicit reliance upon
the methods of modern science, are
oftentimes the very ones who fail to
see that this very reason, by which
they are guided, and these very scien-
tific methods, of which they boast,
lead inevitably to Immortality as a
demonstrated reality. l for one be-
lieve that the time has gone by for
speaking of the eternal life as hope,
faith, probability, dream of the
poets and a vision of the prophets! IL
immortality is nothing but hope, a
probability, dream, then is the vast
and splendid structure of modern sci
ence, which no sane man thinks of
questioning, nothing but a hope, a
probability, a dreami The two things
stand or fall together-it is all or
nonei