The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-11-24

lighthouse of Pharos, which after
wards became one of the seven won
ders Of the world, he employed Sos
tratus, and instructed him to make 1t
a monument to the king. The shreWd
architect built it of stone and down
deep in the stone base ne carved not
Ptolemy's but his own name as the
true builder, over that he plastered
and on the outer surface he carved the
name of the king. Well did he know
fetal name, and leave the name OF the
true architect! So God has made his
own image so deep down in mans soul
that time and human doubts can only
veneer over 1t, whilst down deep man
always acknowledges his maker
Whence then come these desires, long
ings, this pleasing hope? Would Goa
mock u.s. Clearly it is not the re-
suit OF any conspiracy or educational
system. as all men possess IT. even
the lowest Whence this secret dread
and inward horror of falling into the
breath of life the Almighty breathed
into mans nostrils when he made him?
Brevity of Earthly Life.
3. The brevfty OF our earthly lives
in comparison with our ambitions
makes Immortality most reasonable.
We are able to accomplish only a 1.-THE
of what we think and plan. A horse
little undone, but what of man with
eternity swelling up within him?
Solomon had all wisdom and wealth
and pleasure afforded by his times,
and yet he found earthly life vain
because so brief His plans came to
an end, his desires failed, and he
summed up his thought in one line,
Fear God and keep his command
ments, for this is the whole duty of
man. What can all the pomp and
glory of earthly kingdoms do for a
soul2 Clearly, only the restoration OF
the soul into its divine likeness lost
in the fall can satisfy it. II shall be
satisfied when awake in thy likeness"
f. Another presumptive evidence of
the immortality Of the soul is found
in the wonderful beneficial effects of
the belief upon mems lifes and con-
duct. The nobility in the behavior it
inspires. Whence shall any more
come these life giving streams which
sanctify the altar of marriage, and
protect the innocent babe, and pre-
serve the safety of woman, and throw
around human life the strong arm of
the law? Take away the hope of inn
mortality and these things will dis
appear as the mists melt before the
sun. One nation sought to do away
with these, and dispensed with God
and a sabbath. and declared that death
was only an eternal sleep, and turned
her churches into what was called
temples of reason" soon infidelity
resigned, the Bible was dragged in
the streets in derision, and it was not
long till the cutters were filed with
human blood. and property was con-
fiscated, and Paris was almost a desc
lation. Seeing the effects of it's sin
France was compelled to re- establish
the Sabbath and Christian worship.
Blot out all belief in future life and
you plunge the world into gulf of
dark despair, without any hope of
the cheering light of the morning.
There is one more evidence, be-
sides all those in Scripture, namely it
takes this fact of immortality to jus
tify the chaEa cter of God, and relieve
the world Of being a mere madhouse
of Inconsistencies, and dreams. The
inequalities and injustices of the pres
ent life are enough to make the an
gels weep: The defeats OF right, the
triumph Of the wicked, the adversely
of the righteous-these require eternity
to make the wrong things right Sir
William Russll upon ascending the
scaffold where he was judicially muir
dered along with Sidney by the house
saying: II have no more use for it
now, am dealing with eternity" A
little boy in a Georgia town was at
tending a meeting where his soul was
1ae0 with the love OF God, but toward
the last OF the meeting where his
soul was filled with the love of God,
but toward the last of the meeting
was stricken with a deadly disease,
and could not live. He spoke Of the
wonderful effect the meeting had upon
him, counted the strokes of the clock
one night as it struck twelve, and be-
fore one he was gonei Was that the
end of that young soul, fired with its
holy possibilities?
DR. j. N. Prestridge, sanity editor
of the Baptist World, a man who gave
his life to the deep things of death
and Immortality and one day recently
wrote an editorial on death, in which
he put the fullness of his heart, sat
down in his chair to read paper. and
never got up. They found him there
dead. Was that the last of Prest-
ridge? The man who had inspired
thousands of Christians in many lands
with his beautiful faith in Jesus and
resurrection? Jesus says, They that
believe on me shall never die" This is
the anzwer of the Christian religion
which has its roots in all lands, and
in millions of human hearts, to Jobs
question. Let us not any more think
of a dead Christ, nor of our own flesh
and blood as in the ground, but think
OF them all as risen, sitting with Abra-
ham and all the blest.
ct walked along the ocean strand,
A pearly shell was in my hand,
STOPPED and wrote upon the sand