The log cabin Democrat., 1916-02-09
INTO ETERNAL LIFE
Soul Moves to Appointed Place When the Spirit Leaves the
 Mortal Body.

thought; II IS not sad one, II IS a great philosophical question that becomes exceedingly interesting to anyone who gets into the inner part of it's consideration. He meant that we all die daily; not that it was pe- culiar to him, but that it was a gen eral. universal truth.
 What is death? It Is s change. The Bible defines it very frequently as change. We shall all be changed In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump. for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised" We shall all be changed, so that the word death" whether in the original language or the English. means @ change. You do not lose anything unless you be- come dead to it. Every little loss is little death. The Bible, then pre- sents death as being present loss; something gone today which we value and desire to retain.
 It is also defined as a transition. If we go from one room to the other we die to the first room, and it is resurrection and a new life in the other room. It is a transition, and when the apostle Paul uses the word death he means all these things.
 Death also means change of form but never change of essence. The Bible never teaches that death is an. initiation.
 Simply New Form of Life.
 Death, then, in a scriptural sense is very philosophical question. For instance, if you had a large amount of gold hidden in your cellar, and bonds and stocks in your safe. and you live with them in miscrly joy and satisfaction, you count your gold over every night, and you bury it again beneath the soil, and the next night you live with it again, or you go to the safe and open it aud take out the stocks and bonds and count them over, and you live with them. Then the time comes when you con- clude you will die to those things, that you will give them up, that you will take your gold from tho cellar, that you will invest 1t in a hospital Or some school or church, or some in ftitution for the good of humanity, then you die to the gold in your eel lar, and you live to the new form in which that gold appears. You take those stocks and bonds and you in. vest them in a home, and you f.cnish it with the luXuries of life, you live in it with your family, and you sur round it with all the joys of domestic comfort, and you die to the bonds; let them all go; you have los. them, you are dead 10 them, but you are alive to the new home and all the blessings that come with it You simply die to one form and rise again in another. That is the Bible teach. ing as to what death means.
 Did it ever occur to you that Christ died twice? Not only once did he die for us, in the form that we read about when he died and went home to heav. en. But he left those fields of glory, left his association with the angels and gave up his home in
 
 came down to live as a man upon this earth. The greatest trial of his ex. istence must have been there.
 Error to Dread Death.
 Christ died twice. All sacrifice is death, and what is going on every day in the natural world, as we meet it everywhere, is but analogous to what takes place in the spiritual world. all dying. and any person who makes a sacrifice today for the bet, torment of the future is dying today that he may live doubly tomorrow.
 must point the Gospel moral which it teaches us. and that is that you need never dread death. There is nothing to dread unless your sins are heavy on your heart, or unless you have failed to do what you could do, and that is. put your trust in Christ. If you have faith in Christ you should have learned by now not to have any fear of death, and if you have, re- solve now that you will not have any fear of death, that it is but the natural thing anyhow. You are dying all the time. Your body has died many times This entire body goes through a change in less than eight years, so that there is not one particle of the body left that was there eight years before. All is dead, gone. It has dis. appeared, as the whole body ultimate ly will and when death comes to you, remember that nature, instinct, and everything teach that death is but transition; that it is not annihil1tion, but the natural going from one natural state to another natural state that you live in this body while ip this world, and it is your natural cont Nion to remain in this body so long as it is of any use to you, but when you go out of this body, you do not lie you are the same person living with identically the same character the same thoughts, and wishes, art de. SireS in the country of changel .>on