The mirror., 1915-03-25
monuments Of social life, and by


reviewing the complete picture of
creation, it looks like vague cons
ciousness of divine Artist, whose
wonderful masterpiece will bring
forth the exclamation of: How ex-
allied! How spirituallzed! How
God -likep'
Such true vivid impression will
be further strengthened by glanc-
ing back and taking notice of how
man has struggled thru many ages
from companionship with beast,
from clothing of skins and barks,
houses of caves. through all grades
of pupilage, all degrees of civlliza-
ton up the heights of moral and
mental exaltation. From age to
age he has learned to commune
more and more with the spiritual
life with the unseen and consider
ing the perfectibilitJ of the intel
lectul and spiritual nature of man
there is no reason why he could
not accomplish this grand problem,
and it is the most stupendous one
with which the human mind can
grapple to find an answer to these
following questions: Whence
come we?" whittier are we
tending?" What is tn e final
destination and solution when the
drama of the world-the Mans
closed?" What does the retro
spect of so years disclose what
achievement and progress, what i'm
provements?' And even then man
is on the onward march Of scientific
invention and explorations.
Let us mention just a few in the
last century such as steam, electric
ity telegraph, telephone. wireless
telegraph and air nayigation-what
wonderful achievements! 1t re-
mains for us to aim forward and
penetrate the world of invisible
things, and even if we can not pre-
sumo to offer an explanation and
solution of spiritual events, we may
be able to inquire what light is
thrown upon this subject by con-
verging rays of modern science and
philosophy. In every age of the
world thoughtful minds have paid
attention to this, and if we look in
to the pages of ancient philosophy,
we will find men like Plato and So
crates, whose minds were occupied
with such salient points and who
were looking by the dim light of
reason for an outlook into the future
and the Immortality of the soul.
Going back hundreds of years,
we can trace the belief in hereaf-
ter shown by very near all the an
cient races and nations all over the
world in different forms. Some of
them are comical, some are tragic.
Just a few illustration will give us
an idea of their belief: Some ex-
pected to die as black men and
rise as white men, others pur-
chased oars and put them in the
graves so they could use them to
paddle over to heaven, others put
costly presents and jewels and even
money in the graves SO they can
live in luxury after the arrival in the
hereafter, but the different beliefs
and customs are too numerous to
mention them ALL.
First of all we must draw some
analogical observations from the
physical universe, we must look
around through the realms of ma
ture with thoughtful eye in search
of parallel phenomena developed
in other creatures fates. whose evo-
luton will throw some light on a
future spiritual life argument. A
glance in the vegetable kingdom
will draw a picture before our eyes
of the hailing and returning Spring
that brings resurrection and life to
the graves of the sod after vegeta-
ton winter death and such natural
similitudes will give us evidence of