The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-08-18
Uncle eDave's
Letter
WHAT Is LIEF

,. What is your life mentally?
). What Is your life morally?
4. What is your life spiritually?
Take man and remove from him
all will power; he becomes a dcgen-
crate. man without Ii character
Next, remove from him all intellect,
and without power and intellect he
becomes the most helpless of idiots
Then remove from him all sensibility
the faculty by which he feels pain
and pleasure-and without will. intel
lect and sensibility you will have
mere machine, tile physical man.
Take u grain OF wheat, grind it OH a
mortar until 1t is separated into the
most minute particles and then place
these PARTICLES under the most pow
erful microscope known and even then
you cannot discover life.
A celebrated scientist defined life
as the adjustment of inner organisms
TO environment. But the mind OF man
has not yet solved the mystery. God
alone knows the secret. There are
great many other things we do not
know. We do not now what electric
ity Is. although that mighty force was
old when Benjamin Franklin
discovered the existence Of such n
power. Neither do we know what
matter Is. Our textbooks on physics
tell us that matter is composed of
jnolccules and molecules of atoms,
and atoms OF millions OF iOns-and
what is matter? Tie best scient:
minds OF the world answer, 1--WE do
not know"
What is our life mentally? The
Psychologist tells us that mind Is
that which feels, wills and thinks: IL
Is the conscious self the ego; but the
question. what Is mind, still remnine
unanswered. what wonderful thing
Is mind! They tell us that the dis
tance from the earth to the sun la
93N00Q00 miles. Travelling at the
rate of 60 miles a minute, day and
night. It would take 1.769 years TO
reach 1t. Put into our physical man u
trained mind. and we have made one
more step toward the ideal man.
Mind Is necessary to progress. The
bird makes its nest exactly as its an
cestors Of 1000 years ago. No mind
no p{ogress. Mind is responsible
for the great discoveries OF the rine-
teenth cetnury. Within that century
says Alfred Fusscll there were thir-
teen inventions of the first rank-rail-
ways, steam navigation, electric tele-
graph, telephone, friction matches,
gas lighting. photography, phono-
raph, Roenten rayE. spectrum analy-
SIS use Of anerthetics, and antisep-
tic surgery.
What is your life morally?
Mental life deals with tho intellecti
moral life with the will. But tho
mental and moral are closely con.
nected. AS man thinketh in his
heart. so is he. We have put into our
sensible physical man trained
mind. We have not yet a guaranteed
man OF worth. Bacon was known us
the wisest of men. and the meanest.
we must now add moral worth, for II
Is the balance wheel of every individ-
ual. and Of society as we'll
What Is your life spiritually?
This is the most important question.
Eternal life is not vapor. Physical
life Is vapor tfog), but eternal lite
fs never ending sunshine. You ma,
have strong physical body, a train
ed mind, and be morally good Tin tho
commonly accepted meaning of that
phrase) yet miss real life. The tes-
timony Of many attests the truth OF
tho statement. Each man tries to
find life In his work, but real life lies
back OF It,
To the preacher life's a sermon, !.
To the miser life Is money,
To the loafer life Is rest.
To the lawyer life's trial,
To the doctor life's q patient
That needs treatment right along.
To the teacher Mfe's a school; w
To the soldier life's a battle, q
Cife's good thing to the CRATER,
It's a failure to the fool.
To the man upon the engine,
Lies long and heavy grade:
To the merchant life Is trade.
TO the rascal life'sl fraud;
Life is but a long vacation Co.
To the man who loves his work
flIdfe's an everlasting effort
To shun duty. to the shirk.
To the eternal Christian worker
Lilies story ever new;
Life is what we try to<make it.
Brother, what Is life to. you?
Real life Is not a property of physi-
atoms, nor: does 1t lie In mental at
tainment, In occupation or the wealth
we POSSESS. but In that which Inspires
us to, live for eternity. For what Ia |
man profted II he shall gain the
whole world and lose his own soul Z
Or what shall a man give In exchange
For bis soul7 Bringing the question
still closer, which would you rather
have. IL you had to make a choice
nne hnndrHd niliinne IL dollars. lands.
houses automobiles. ETC.. or Z q sure
hope Of eternal life? Ah, physical
life. ts but a svap0r but eternal life
endnres. Our Savior said: E.sWhoso-
ever liyeth and believeth In Me- shall
never die" The history Eof Christianity