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sings praises and the zephyr and the
tornado blasts have music of their
own. There is no hunger nor thirst
in human life to which is not given
satisfaction Away down in the dis
NAL swamps of Florida and Cuba,
where the miasma of malaria breeds,
is found growing in the quagmire the
cure for the disease-the quinine. Do
you mean to tell me that God will
satisfy every human hunger and long
ing of the soul and put in the heart
the aspiration for Immortality strong
er than all else and then not grant
satisfaction? Not if God be God;
for to create a hunger and not feed
it is a crime The thirst for the in
finite proves infnity.
may consent to the humiliation
of reason, of imagination, of the body
with all its senses; | can conceive the
dimming of the wonderful faculties
of the mind; but love will not down.
No man who ever loved his mother
has consented, without protest, to the
final parting, the eternal separation.
No parent has buried child without
fondly pleading that it may be re-
turned to life. You can trust love
further than you can philosophy.
Love never fails. Love is eternal,
and the thirst for inhnity proves the
infinite Life means something more
to us than to acquire and accumulate
if we are to last forever We would
not enter heaven as it were "by the
skin of our teeth" or as derelict
towed into harbor by two tugs, but
as brig with all canvas spread and
colors flying, rejoicing in the promise
of an infinite Father that we should
have everlasting life.
Memory takes me back to school
boy days and | see beautiful fifteen
year old girl blessed with health, for
tune and all that heart could wish,
suddenly stricken down with paraly-
sis and unable to even talk coherent
ly. The doctor pronounced it creep
ing paralysis and added, cher best
days are over" But summoning all
her strength and brokenly with that
thick tongue she cried out, mo; my
best days are yet to come. am
soon going to see the King in His
beauty and rejoice for evermore."
Some people crossed the Atlantic
ocean a few years ago to witness the
crowning Of King Edward, and l
would enjoy such trip myself but
the coronation of the king of Eng
land would be tawdry show COM
pared with the presence of His Ex-
cellency the King of Glory. To the
question, Why do we not know some
thing about this life eternal? | would
reply, Why didn't you know some
thing about this life on earth before
you came into it. Another life is a
necessity because things are not
right here. Life is not complete.
Men live today possessing all the
fruitage of character and success who
never deserve one iota of it. They
enjoy the flower and fragrance of
prosperity who never earned it and
many who are absolutely worthy of
that fruitage have only failure and
oppression and sorrow. Because life
is unequal here there must be place
where Justice reigns and these diff
ferences are righted up. Gods way,
like the printers type, seems always
set up wrong side to, but the i'm
print taken in the life eternal is al
ways right face front and clear. Man
who does not believe in Immortality
is like the consumptive gasping for
1 Al, rhA ha1. lie
like a runner in a race who has his
second wind and strongly strides to
victory You may say life is but a
bubble, beautiful in its symmetry, re-
splendent in its coloring, but so frag-
lie that breath of wind will efface it,
but is God going TO place in the body
a mind capable of surveying the in
finite, a genius born to expand in
wisdom and power, and then puff it
out? Our very manhood rebels at
the thought The saddest chapter in
ancient literature is the blind CROP
ing after perpetual youth or the life
beyond. Cropping in darkness until
philosophy broke in despair ere the
life and light of Immortality were
manifested to us in Jesus Christ.
Now we no longer guess, we no
longer dream, but know that He is
able to deliver us from darkness.
Since He came forth from Calvary
we no longer grope in darkness, but
with sails spread in Gods sunshine
we are voyaging home to life
eternal with Him. May God help us
to know when we go down in the
shade of the valley, that because He
lives we shall live also.