The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1915-07-31
IMMORTALITY
OF HUMAN SOUL

The following interesting address
was delivered to large audience at
the Congregational church the even
ing of July 18 by Supt. C. J. N.
Nelson of the Beach schools:
One of the unsolvable mysteries of
creation is birth and equally mysteri-
Gus is death and life after death can
be sensed even in it's most elemen-
tary state only through Divine reve-
lations. Immortality takes us just
beyond the boundary line where NOR
tality and the finite reasoning of man
ends and the weary traveller in his
self acknowledged insufficiency turns
toward the master of men and the
Savior of the world with the childlike
plea "show me the way" So in our
extreme need neither science nor phi
losophy can save us but faith in him
"who marks even the sparrows fall"
Nevertheless, we are endowed with
the God given power to reason with
the injunction to use it. So from the
world which we see and feel and
hear, we may draw conclusions con-
cerning the unseen and comparatively
unknown.
Science and philosophy disclose a
very intimate relation between the
material and the spiritual worlds.
The laws of nourishment growth and
development of disease, decay or de-
generacy seem to apply alike to the
mental as well as to the physical. AS
human body grows and thrives ac-
cording to the food that nourishes it
so the mind and spirit grow accord
ing to the nourishment that they re-
ceive. Newton's End law of motion,
that action and reaction are equal
and opposite in direction easily
demonstrated in the physical
world applies alike to the
mental and the spiritual. 1saack
Newton discovered that the apple did
not fall to the earth any more than
the earth fell to the apple, and that
they met exactly half way as far as
momentum is concerned. But the
earth on account of it's immensity of
mass passes through a corresponding
ly smaller space. The gun and gun
ner go backward with the same mo-
mentum that the bullet goes forward.
The lighter mass Of the bullet makes
it pass through a longer distance.
You jump from an unanchored row
boat and the boat will go backward
with. your leap forward. ''Action
and reaction are equal and opposite
in direction" is one of the stern i'm
mutable and unchanging laws of God
concerning force and motion in the
physical world. The law of action
and reaction is just as applicable just
as unchanging touching the spirit.
The biblical adage that "Love begets
love and hate hate" is but demon
stration of this same principle. "Cast
your bread upon the waters for they
will return to you" is another mani
festation.. of the same principle and
festationo of the same principle and
is Incorporated into the Christian
moral code. Good reacts with good
and evil with evil. On the other hand
excessive and overstimulated pleas
ure always reacts afterward with a
corresponding depression and cor
responding mental gloom. Thus we
could keep on indefinitely to draw
parallels between our observations in
the physical world and our introspec-
ton into our mental and spiritual
lives. From such a comparative
study, one of the most striking
truths that bursts upon our clouded
vision is not only the belief but the
fact of the immortality of the human
soul. The law of the indestructibil-
ity of matter has been proven con-
clusively. Matter may be earth to-
day, plant tomorrow and then ami
NAL tissue then back to earth again
but atom for atom it is preserved
through all its changing cycles.
Matter may change from solid to a
liquid or to gas but the mass is de-
creed by the eternal to be eternal.
The apparent disappearance Of OBJ
jects by decay or rust or oxidization is
merely such a change it is not the
end. The potato as potato ceases
to be but it's component parts live on
forever. You take a stick Of wood
and weigh it with the most delicate
balance and record this weight. Then