The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-21
Living Again and Forever.

Living Again and Forever.
Terse Comments on the Uniform Pray
er Meeting Topic of the Young
deavor, etc.-for April %; The Les
sons of Our Immortality."-Ro
6:1-23.
If we concede that the soul is inn
mortal, then the question of it's final
destination becomes of supreme i'm
portance- If we are to live again and
forever, nothing else in the universe
Is of such moment as making sure
that our eternal life is to be a blessed
one To put off consideration of this
pre-eminent question is sheer folly, for
ing than the question of what we shall
eat and wear, or of what we shall do
in this infinitestimal fragment OF
eternity, called time.
The life that is hid in Christ will be
revealed in eternity.
They who live for eternity should
live as immortals. The prince may
not demean himself as does the beg
gar 'Noblesse oblige." A heavenly
crown calls for heavenly conduct.
The glory of the life eternal and
supernal should be brought down to
irradiate earth by all who possess it
as an inheritance. Only a triumph
ant Christ can give a person victory
over his own baser self.
Christ's triumph over death is the
guarantee of our triumph over sin.
Because He has won, we may win.
The power that broke the bands of
death has been transferred to us that
we may break the bands of sin.
Christ rose that we, too, might rise;
He lives to piye us life.
The life beyond glorifies our life
here.
ginning.
Heaven is the place Of compensa-
ton. Every thing that is lacking
here will be made up there. The
dear desires of earth may be richly
fulfilled in eternity. All dark provi-
dences will be explained, and all
mysteries cleared up.
eve shall know" How the words
ring with hope to hearts saddened by
the misunderstanding and igncrances
of earth. Now, we see through
glass darkly, but then, face to face"
All the clouds and mists will disap-
pear. Every barrier to full knowledge
will vanish. In d twinkling of an eye
our flesh-limited minds have been a
lifetime in vainly trying to discover.
The Fathers house will be home
like to all His children, whether they
have dwelt in tents, novels, cottages
or palaces.
Heaven is an individual as If made
especially for each person entering it
;e% I1a in xr-a 6a v1n
hope of glory.
This material world would be bet
ter world if it were more conscious of
the vital verities of the unseen world.
The nerson who has lived and
worked for noble ends, pouring him
self unstintedly into the service of
God and man, does not need to fear
| eternity. That is dreadful only to
those whose earth-life has not been
adjusted to the divine life. The fear
of death is terror from which the
Christian has been delivered. He, like
Paul longs to be clothed upon with
the richer, freer life of immortality
! The person who lives for the next
world will live best in this; for his
! constant aim will be to bring the
4 heavenly ways down to earthly walks.
| Life is most worth living when it is
/ lived for the most worthy ends. The
! thought of heaven hereafter, and OF
| heavenliness now, has been the re-
demption of many a spirit from mis-
cry and sordidness. In this sense,
even earth may be blest by heavens
/ best.
Life is real! Life is earnest
/ And the grave is not its goal:
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
I Was not spoken of the soul
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each tomorrow
Finds us farther than today
-Longfellow.