The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-11-07
WHAT is THE SOUL? DOES 1T LIVE?

God shan wipe away Ill tears from their eyes; and
there shall be no more death neither sorrow, cry
ing; neither shall thsre be any more PAIN for the for
msr things are passed away"
Some details and rsvelstieus In the Book Of Isvsls
ton sound strangely to the wsstsn mind but there Il
one text in which al can ind comfort, the simple
minded savage listening TO the machinery or the
student Of astronomy who knows that the universe IL
infinite, made up Of endless solar ystsms scattered
through infinite space.
In my Fathers house there are many mansions;
it were not 80 would have told You. 90 70 pre-
pare place for you
Almost every religion teaches the belief in the lie
osyond the grave It Is the one reward the ode con
ISOLATION that could bs offered to slaves In their misery
Or to kings in their uncertainty to the present and
their dread Of an unknown future.
As John comes back in the Book Of Rsvslation and
tells what he has seen in heaven, 20 Mohammsd comes
back from his trip among the stars, mounted his
white horse borak and tells what he has SEEN angels
with faces big that it would take years to ride from
one eye to the other eye. His wonders excessive,
but hundreds Of millions believe it,
He, fighter anxious to please fighting men, told
them when they died they went to heaven where they
could drink wine forever and got drunk where
they would bs supplied with fair damssI with bodies
made Of solid musk that would never grow DID, and
where by the way their wives would never b allowed
to como and bother them
The Indian believed that up above the thunder and
the clouds place whore he could live forever and
hunt the bison.
Highly civilized Creeks believe not too thoroughly
in an underworld dim and gloomy regions for the
wicked and beautiful Elysian Field beyond.
The Christian religion. revealed originally to
Oriental man living in IN Oriental country, offered
eternal life in magnificent court around magnificent
throne the great reward and the burning heat Of
He'll as the punishment to bs feared
The chief religion Of tired old, worn-our AHA and
the religion that has more followers than any in the
world promises Nirvana, the end Of striving peace
full nothingness, a. the highest reward
You read. besvk each in the faith that he selects
And we believe We also wonder and think. pic
.ure like this holds our attention. The magnificent
stone Indian is only the reproduction Of dsA with
I'll his magnihcsnoe he il nothing but stone.
If in the little human creature standing It the foot
Of the statue there was power, merely BY AN IDEA
10 create tnat S2tue ana rue TIM world. now could
that idea die? In world whore We know matter and
foroe to be indestructibe how can ws bslieve that
thought soul spirit, which force and controls
matter, can possibly be destroyed
We look at the line Of animals that the artist has
put into this pcture-the foolish giraffe the thought
full intelligent elephant the ferocious rhinoosros the
slow turtle, the wrthing snake. We know that every
one of these beasts has within its brain CONSEQUENCES
similar to that in the brain Of the man Each sees light
feels pain and pleasure
Yet in all tho animals there il not one after the
millions Of years this earth that knows that such
hing death exists They fear injury; they do not
fear death. They do not know it.
Man alone knows about DEATH and alone he hopes
or life to follow death. '.}, -
He believes in it. and, - many have truly said that
lrm belief is aside from . religious rsvslatou the
best and, in fact, the only CONVINCING PROOF that
We have Of Immortality.
We are ruled by Just Power Weald that Power
hat Justice, have planted in each Of IN ardent
onginR for eternal le oolipsinr all other lonsinrx