The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-02
Lie and Death.

Lilo and Death.
Judge Deemer at the grave OF Sena-
tor Joseph M. Junkin: AS We grow
older and become more familiar with
that mysterious phenomena called
death, that great climax in the drama
OF human life. think we become more
philosophic and come into Its sacred
presence with less dread, although
with no less OF sympathy and sorrow.
But our sorrow is for the living and
| our SORROWS are lightened by that ever
present hope and reasonable assurance
Of q blessed immortality.
From every standpoint We are more
and more convinced that,
IT'S not the whole of lie to hves
Nor all OF death to die.
| Often have said and doubtless be.
| fore in his presence that death Is not
nearly 30 mysterious to me as birth
and life. The narrow highway from
the cradle to the grave which we are
all pursuing. beginning with the tiny
| infant in Its mothers arms on through
childhood. youth and middle age, Is to
me. the great riddle of creation; and
as watch the development Of the hui
man intellect with all Its affectionate,
loving, sympathetic, social, mental and
moral qualities. l know that humanity
has received from somewhere, from
infinite goodness, of infinite wisdom,
something not vouchsafed to any 9TH
er form Of life. This divine something,
call 1t spirit, or soul, or what you will,
is to my mind very part of God Him
self.
1t Is universal law OF matter that
i nothing is absolutely destroyed. There
is change In the body to be sure, even
more miraculous than the change In
man himself, but no destruction. Shall
we say. then, that the frame In which
we live and move and have our being
! is to live on and on, but that man
himself shall be no more?
The answer to this by all modern
] philosophy. by all the modern Science,
by all the religions of the world, is
that this spiritual man survives, and
4 1t is now generally believed that the
veil which separates us from eternity
we shall some day discover to be a
very thin one indeed. All must pass
through that transition called death,
!, for II all had lived since the centuries
began there would scarce be standing
room upon the globe. II all born dur.
ing the past thousand years had lived
till now there would not be food
enough for all, and SO one and all
must pass on to what some one has
called. That well known rendezvous
Eternity" And SO in the long run 1t
matters little when the summons
comes If we but do our duty well. In
each of US is something Of Divinity,
something given us in sacred trust,
: something know not what that likes
and loves, something that causes US
to sympathize, to sorrow, something
: which calls out all the nobler emo
tions, the finer feelings and the divine
! attributes of our nature; and 1t is ours
to preserve these from corruption,
! from hate, from envy, from malice,
from vice, from all those baser attri-
! butes-"those earthly humors that op.
press mankind"
! Life is real, life is earnest, and the
i grave is not the goal.
!, Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was
= not spoken of the Soul.
n Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way,
= But to act, that each tomorrow
!, Finds us farther than today.
: / cannot better close titan to quote
: the following from letter of very
!. old and dear friend of the family:
4 Yet find abiding comfort-and
il commend 1t to you, my friend, now
" when you are in the sorest need Of
= comfort-that the saddest and mos
i. perplexing mysteries of this life vii
10 become the gladdest and clearest reve
). lations of our Fathers love: love IL
o. The larger and better life which lie
!. such little way before US all-"Wha
a, / do We know not now, but We shall
;, know hereafter" These are the Mas
~ ter's words. They seem to me to be
20 special message to you. l think it
; radiance paints the brightest rainboy
40 upon the clouds that now environ US
ne
as Poor Satisfaction.
IN The man who Is thoroughly satisfied
To- with himself isn't with anything else