The Morgan City daily review., 1919-04-18
Friday, April IS, 1919.
Life After Death

Perhaps because the power OF ris-
ing from death is in man so integral
a part of his nature he uses it famil-
larly without surprises. never quite
realizing its God-quality. From his
daily deaths Of trouble and struggle
from the death of goals he cannot
reach, the deaths of gladness' and
love. of hopes that die with each sun
set. he is reclaimed thousand times.
He cannot really die, for all the
seeming deaths that daily attend him.
They fall into the ground and die.
He rises, raised by the power Of life
in him. and new hopes, new works he
brings forth.
To set this life-power to eternal
things is hard for him. being within
a material world of his own creation.
He has lost the intensity of desire
for two things which kept that ea-'v
group apart and fed it with profound
wisdom-the desire of eternal love
and a simple. uncompromising will
to see the truth.
He feels SO strong a life-power
within him now that he is impelled
to create his own lesser truth, Won
dering then at his dissatisfaction.
Sincere in Rejoicing
1t is not so much belief as percep-
tion that he lacks-a looking in the
wrong direction with eyes dulled by
dwelling on material objects When
the brightest day comes for celebrat-
ing the Risen Spirit. he goes to the
ladened churches, rejoicing in the
flower-beauty that surges into bloom
for the feast and in the massed Choir
al singing of anthems. Surely he IS
sincere; thus loving, thus praising.
thus entering into the service which
the priests and people hold? With
less keenness of sight, however, for
the pure spiritual proving of The
truth than those few were blest with
who long ago, at the earliest Easter.
after long sorrow and waiting, saw
the real resurrection, yet perceived
4he greater spiritual one through it.
But he knows it is in the churches
that he will find the mystery of the
new flower that is to rise. It is al
ways there, to be realized at each
kneeling, to be sown anew in each
heart, to give fostering care, to,
brood over and bless the soil of the
heart while waiting, to tell over and
over again at every time the ques-
tioning heart is lifted up to it that
what the mystery of life can do for
the lesser grain it is bound to do by
an ever truer measure of the same
law for the spiritual growth.
Teaches Great Truth
One can turn better, after that real
ization, to the full springtide and
feel even gladder than nature, know
ing the touch of the eternal flower
within.
Wandering amid the old myths, fill
ed with their beauty and their death
less attachment to life, one feels al
ways under the shadow of ended
things, upon !. the verge where all
reality has gone down in darkness.
The lasting and perfect poetry of
these myths fingers like gorgeous un-
sunken sunsets. As the latest conner
among them many may class the
great Christian story of the resur-
rection. 1t is indeed a great myth,
superlative myth in the real mean
ing of the word as a narrative found i
ed on remote event. But the sim !.
gular, lone truth it symbolizes like !.
4 direct shaft of light separates it !
from the darkness of the old myths !
forever.
They taught the underworld, where !,
the shades moved in a half life or
pale regret conscious Of lost JOY, with !
out hope A monrnfui idea of i'm
mortality that satisfied no heart and
from which the great thinkers of that
sge reached out in vain for light. i
That light appears in the great !
simple law Except the grain fail in
the earth and die it cannot bring
forth fruit" Il