Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-05-07

Man QeSlfeS to RuOW WHO lie IS, where
 he is, where he came from, and where
 he is going He wants to know
 what is true as regards sickness and
 sin and death. He wants to find out
 if it is necessary for him to go on forever suffering from those condi-
 tions. In short, the same desire fer
 practical things that is responsible
 for the steam engine telephone tele-
 graph and multitudes of other use ful things is. driving men forward to try to find the truth about themselves
 HUMAN EXISTENCE AN ENIGMA
 Human existence is an enigma As
 far back as mortal man has left any
 history of himself we find that he has been engaged in an effort to solve
 this problem. To aid him in his eff forts he has founded religons-many of them He has devised plany sys- tems for healing the sick. He has i built schools and endowed societies l for research, and has involved the aid of physical science. He has been industrious and painstaking, and has i faithfully adhered to whatever thing solution. It must be admitted, how ever, that none of these things have solved the problem.
 When we look at the question from the physical standpoint we find that humanity enjoys some sunshine, and goes through much shadow that it suffers and dies, and that these conditions have continued from the beginning of human history. We read about progress in medicine and sur gery and begin to hope for better things, but these hopes have never been realized After four thousand years under the drugging system we are forced to admit that not one dis ease has been permanently eradicat- ed in fact, there are more diseases today than there were five hundred years, ago, and every year adds to their number.
 When we look at the question from theological standpoint We see that there are more tban one hundred and fifty different Christian denomina tions They all use the same Bible and worship the same God and yet they differ as to what the Bible tea ches. They differ as to doctrines, ordinances and modes of worship. In some eases the differences are O. such character that il some be right others must be wrong. By thus multiplying creeds man has not ar rived at absolute truth nor has he heen delivered from evil.
 Jesus said Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest but in spite of the consecrated, loving and faith ful efforts of religious workers there are as many tears today as there were two thousand years ago. The sum of human woe has not diminished. Sadly and sorrowfully humanity looks back at the efforts of magnfi- cent and earnest men and women and is forced to admit that material medi- cine and scholastic theology have failed to solve the human problem though diligently tried through many centuries.
 Nothing could induce me to say 9 clergery or against the members of the medical profession. A large ma jority of them have labored faithfully and conscientiously to bring peace and health to mankind, and none have grieved more than they when their efforts were not attended by success. In face of these things, however, it seems apperaent that if the human problem is ever to be solved, if hu manity is ever to be emancipated l from sin, suffering, sickness, and death, deliverance must come through better understanding of God and man than material medicine and scholastic theology have thus far been able to give.
 When we contemplate the heroic , persistence of humanity to find de- liyerance through these channels, ] cannot help thinking of what Mae l terlipck says of the honey-bee He says that if bee is placed in a glass l bottle with one end open and the closed end turned toward the sun, l the lee will wear it's life out in an effort to escape through the clos | cd end The bee is a little creature that manifests wonderful intelligence with respect to many things, but be- cause it sees the sun through the