The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-05
There Is A Hereafter
 Bishop Burch Insists
Written for the Interna tional News
Ry IMAGERY REX.

. New York, Nov. 5.-Thomas A. Ed ison has evolved a new theory con- eerning the human personality and it's chance of existence after the death of the body in which it dwellS. In an interview recently published in a sci entific magazine the inventor ex- after awaiting personality, or soul, as we may wish to call that part of our mental and spiritual composition.
 Our bodies are made up of count less small cells which MT. Edison calls entities. These cells never die, but at to take other form, thus giving the eternal life which many of us hope for. This means little to you and me-" as MT. Edison is quoted as say | known as death our personality <! breaks up into separate units which combine with others to form new structureS.'
 MT. Edison is at present construct l ing an instrument with which he ex- l poets to determine whether or not it l is possible to communicate with de- paCted spirits.
 l Dreary and hopeless as the scien- 1 lists belief may make the future for l those who agree with him or are in- | fuenced by his statements, the oppo- l site side of his argument is here given by Bishop Charles Sumner Burch, of l the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Views of Bishop Burch.
 '"This is a very interesting contribu- l ton by MT. Edison to the discussion I of subject which is before the peo- l pie of today, more insistently than it
 has been for a long time," said Bishop ] Burch. 'I do not Ike to reply with
 out giving this my long and earnest attention but I will say this much:
 .In regard to a hereafter there would be no Christian belief that could be bulwarked by logic or by hope if personality ended with this life.
 q believe in the Christian idea of the immortality of the soul, and that | would include the continuance of the personality after death. This is our reverent belief, yet We must depend lief in the past of the Christian re ligion and on what conclusions great philosophers have reached favorable
 to our faith. Take for instance
 Christians at all. They did not be. 1feSe that life ended at death. Without such belief We have noth. !, ing by which to justify. life, our eff forts, our suferings, our inequalities that are almost unbeara b1e, are with.
 out reason if we cannot look forward ality
 There is no question but that ever, l day there are great injustices suffered
 by men, women and children through : no fault of their own, and if we be : | lieve in a. personal God we know tha 5 somewhere these things are regulated and recompensed.
 MT. Edison likes to theorize. i'm agine, discuss his likes, thoughts an, tendencies, but this article of his . wherein he states his theory of life, i
 a contradiction, in itself. of the yer essence of life.
 e "If MT. Edison is to be believed the = our world is not worth the trouble c n living in it."
 . Must Be Hereafter. d.I gro right the wrongs we have sui 7. fered, the wrongs we have inflicted O t others, to justly balance this world C 0 ours, there must be a hereaftera Every
 thing leads up to it, but we can z prove it.''
 e Bishop Burch was asked his belle
 in the possibility of communicate | with the departed He replied tha t the consideration he had given tn $ subject had afforded him no satisfao = tion.
 g ''At the Lambeth Conference, whic l, attended in London, that topic wa q gone into thoroughly and the mass i- evidence and studies on the subjet
 were very -unsa tisfactor We dis
 cussed it at length but got nothing ot
 of it worth while.
 |. "Remember, not only Christians be a lieVe in a future life. That hope Ie the foundation Of nearly every relis Il ious belief from earliest ages. How ,- ever, what have said is merely con n ment on the bare synopsis of MT E6 le lson's article as contained in the cliI lg ping you have shown me. I wish It could take longer to consider the ma d ter in order to give you an answe is that thoroughly satisfied me-
 Mir. Edison's Statements.
 In order to give. the reader a c1eari = idea of what MT. Edison has said r, a- garding life and it's destination. if n IT following excerpts from his intervie oare given here:
 'I believe that life. like matter. i