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ing Him can we have the spiritual
vision.
Another Phase of investigation.

1tIoSuCT FHdoC VI tUVSStI9dtiOU.
another phase of this investiga-
ton is found in the evidences of
revival of the old oriental belief in
reincarnation and transmigration OF
soul. 1t is the idea that the soul,
to expiate the evil once done is
given incarnation, must pass through
one form of existence after another,
enduring untold pain and anguish,
until it reaches 'Nirvana And this
may mean either total extinction or
final deliverance This probably par
TALLY explains the question the dis
ciples put to Jesus, who did sin,
this man or his parents, that he was
born blind?' 1t is a doctrine of sheer
horror but it has the hint of a
great truth. And so Theosophy is
SO far at one with Christianity, that
the principle of life once received is
something We can never escape. It's
proper use means fuller life, while
its abuse means an undying death
and the thing is true in this world.
Our next world will be that we have
prepared ourselves here. Only there
we will be stripped of all shame and
disguise and the naked spirit will
stand face to face with a Judgment
so ineXpressibly awful because so
inexpressibly just.
Believes in a Future.
-"Now for myself, | believe in "a
conscious personal future life after
death, because l believe in God and
in Jesus Christ who said: Because
I live, We shall live also;' and |
say this, Sir Knights, | am not voic-
ing any strange doctrine in your
ears. You who have been in the
chamber of reflection and spent your
years in Pilgrim penitence' and have
stood beside the open tomb of your
Lord and have seen Him take this
flight. in symbolic form, from Olivet
to the Height of Glory. you Sir
Knights, are in hearty sympathy with
this belief in future life. At times
when reason would try conclusions
with my faith, l am helped by some
such homely illustration as this:
You have started ffon a journey
some foggy day, one of those days
on which you could not see your
hand before your face. In your
travels you have come to a place where
a bridge is supposed to span the
river. You can see an abutment
spring up at your feet and an arch
swinging out into the mist.
"You cannot see the other end
of the arch. nor the abutment on
which it rests, but you know that
somewhere out yonder it is a com
pleted arch. So when l see the I'M
finished arch of justice and right
eousness rising here at my feet and
reaching out into the future, | be-
lieye that somewhere it will he
completed. All the wrongs of the
ages must be righted, and justice
must not owe a debt it can never
pay.
And together with all these
other evidences, we have the actual
resurrection of Jesus marvelously
arose from the dead. But how do
we know this? On this fact hangs
the whole system of Christianity.
You may doubt this doctrine of the
resurrection if you will, for it can
never be mathematically proved. But
for tina: matter neither can you
fundamentally prove the law of
gravity. But both can nearly be so
proven and all the evidences are in
a railroad train, and it carries you
1000 miles, but leaves you within
a half mile of your home, what do
you do about it? Complain and
doubt? No, you gladly walk the half
mile to your home. Now the differ
ence between the resurrection and
it's actual mathematical proof is but
the distance of half mile in our
minds; and our faith. assisted by
the Holy Spirit, carries us that lost
half mile.
''Jesus taught life beyond the
tomb. He declared his resurrection
and stated that it would be the
promise and pattern of our own and
of this glorious resurrection we have
the most trustworthy evidence. And
SO. by all these voices of intuition
and science and Christian faith we
have an affirmative answer to Jobs
question, If man die. he shall
live again. He that liveth and be-
lieveth in me. shall never die. ,"