Arizona republican., 1917-04-09
IMMORTALITY REMEMBERING
 l. BY REV. RAY CLARkSON HARKER

its very form has vanished and the hard, splendid ponderous and opaque metal that bat a very few minutes since was immersed in the mixture is apparently annihilated. Must we con- clude that the metal is destroyed be- cause it's presence is Inapprecable by our senses2 Chemical science enables us 10 reproduce it from the solution, undiminished in weight and possessing -ne luster and other properties by which il was previously distinguished and thus to place the question of it's being suspended in the liquid beyond the possibility of d doubt. The repro Iucuon Of the silver may be effected by introducing some pieces of copper into the solution, to which metal the acid has stronger affinity than to The silver, and the latter will conse- quently be disengaged and fall to the bottom in small, brilliant, meLa44.c crystals. The quantity thus depos- tied will be found to correspond ex- actiy with the weight of the metal dissolved" Now. if we recognize the indestructibility of matter can we not more readily recognize the inue- structibilty Of spirit Where is tHr power that will annihilate the soul? What logic can prove the soul less en- during than matter? What crucible hnrns up the spirit?
 The Endowments of Man Point to an
 Immortality
 Can We readily believe that the Snlendid endoWmentS and capacities for progression as seen in man are to be hurried to nonentity when the cur tain of death falls on man? The un- feeling sun rolls on cycle after cycle; the stars go swinging across the plains fF inf um; the ocean sings it's ages-long an them on the shore. Shall man, with his powers of mind, his vast conceptions, his tireless ina gination his imperial will, his matchiess love, be crushed out of eXistenceI His gifts seem too great to be fully developed in this life. We believe that no such grand ma chinery would have been set in motion if it Were to be Stilled forever at the touch Of death. 4 few years of life seem out of proportion with his en- GoWments A grander career and q de vel0pment of such possibilities. To have mans career end at death would De like the artist painting picture and then, when it was completed, destro., 1t; 1t would be as though a sculptor should carve a statue and then shat ter it: it would be as though a garden
 
 blossoms and then, when the promise of fruit was at hand. should destroy the tree; it would be like an architect building ParthenOn or a St. Paul's cathedral and then :urn cannon upon them.
 To Fill Out Our Ideas of a Good ard
 Gracious God immortality
 is Required
 Will not He who implanted the de- sire for immortality give opportunity for its qualification? We cannot be- lleve that a desire so universal as the desire for life beyond the grave will be left with no satisfaction by Him who created and controls all
 One says: Tt were MOloch not the universal Father that could crush into death these multitudes- of loving souls supplicating Him for life, dash into fragments these miraculous personal harps of a thousand strings, each cap able of vibrating a celestial melody of praise and bliss. Our conception, then, of the goodness of God prompts the belief in the immortality of the soul.
 The Inequalities of Earthly Life Point
 to Another Life
 If there is such a thing as justice must there not be another life? Soc rates said: "l believe a future life is needed to avenge the wrongs of this present life. In the future life justice shall 5e administered to us, and those who have done their duty here, in that future life shall find their chief delight iN seeking after wisdom"
 The innocent suffer on account of the guilty Many a righteous man suffers while wicked man. his neighbor. is in prosperity. Many c child starves and suffers because a habit-b bound father squanders his money for rum Many woman struggles and pines and dies because she is married to a man whom sin has made brute. Many a slave has been scOurased by an in- human master. Bitter wrongs are seen on every hand, injustice is common Honest and noble John Huss is led to the stake by cruel men. Christians are driven into the arena by bloody Nero. John the Baptists life is quenched by an incestuous Herod TOussaint Louverture is thrust by Napoleon into the grim solitude of dungeon to slowly die of starvation Lincoln falls with an assasin's bullet in his brain. So if there is such a thing as justice there must be another world where all it's claims shall be satisfied We believe the curtain of the future will he lifted and God will he seen to he dispenser of justice and right eousneSs. One says: Take away