The Washington times., 1920-10-27

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Charles sumner Burch says, there
would be no Christian belief that
could be bulwarked by logic or by
hope IL personality ended with this
life.
81 believe in the Christian idea Of
the Immortality OF the soul. ind that
would include the cOnttnuance OF the
person ality after death. This is our
reyerent belief. yet we must depend
upon revelations on our trust and be
lief in the past OF the Christian re-
ligion and on what conclusions great
philosophers have reached favorable
to our faith. Take, for instance. Pa
to and Socrates and others. not
Christians at all. They did not be-
Iieve that life end-u with death.
without such belief we have moth
ing by which TO justify life; our ef-
forts, our sufferings, our inequalities
that are almost unbearable. are with
out reason II We cannot look FORWARD
to the immortal life of the person
ality.
"Mr. Edison likes to theorize, i'm
agine, discuss his likes, thoughts and
tendencies, but this article OF his.
wherein he states his theory OF NE
Is contradiction, in itself, OF the
very essence Of life. If Mr.. Edison Is
to be believed. then our world is not
worth the trouble of living in it
ITO right the wrongs We have sur
fered. the wrongs we have inflcted
on others, to justly balance this world
of ours, there must be hereafter.
Everything leads up to IT, but we
can't prove it,"
Edison is out Of his feld. He is a
scientist. When he talks as he has
been recently quoted he is entering
the fiield of metaphysics. | would as
soon take his opinion on metaphysics
as would on the rate OF exchange,
declared Father Patrick II. kNTke,
Is. J., Of the College of st. Francis
Xavier.
..yery possibly our bodies are made
I'D of innumerable entities very
POSSIBLY they are indestructibie. hut
Mr.. Edison cannot explain AWAY the
soul. the spirit. or whatever else you
wish to cnIl 1t, that something tha'
distin xuishes man."
"T,et the cobbler stick to his last"
said Father Thomas f. Burke, SUI
perior of the Paulist Fathers. Mr..
Edison is scientist, not a meta
nbysician. However. | do not be-
Iieye, this Is any recent viewpoint
of Mr.. Edison's. If | remember
rightly. he expressed the same views
several years ago. " he isn't ma
terialist, he resembles ono very
closely"
SAYS EDISON is JOKE.
al think Mr.. Edison, as theolo-
rian and a philosopher, is joke
Rev. Milo ". Gates, rector OF the
Chapel OF the Intcrcession. said in
dismissing the scientists "philosoph-
ioaI arguments" as negligible.
"Mr Edison is off his beat" asserts
pr John Roach Straton. "If he would
ro to church and study the Bible he
would learn more OF mortality and
The hereafter than he'll ever learn In
his laboratory.
"The truth Of another world and a
future life has been proved for 2,ooo
years and 7 regret that Mr.. Edison Is
so far behind the times that he hasn' I
learned the news. We have proved
the fact that Christ rose from the
dead 1000 years ago and we have the
document in whcih unimpeachable
witnesses testify to that fact and in
addition to that testimony we have
the influences OF living Christ
through 1000 years of human history.
sonSl experiences Of men for 1000
years proving their relationship to a
living Christ.
"The disciples were transformed
into p group OF the worlds greatest
heroes because they met Christ after
His resurrection.
saul of Tarsus. who was big
oted. prosecuted Pharisee, was trans
formed. according TO his own state
ment. by meeting Christ after He rose
from the dead.
"Nr Edison fn,Is TO understand that
the truth Of the reality OF future
worlds proved historically aud there
fore does not need To he proved
scientifically"
SCIENTIFIC DISEASE.
at would be good thing II Mr..
Edison werc as wise as Darwin and
did not trespass into felds where he
has no STANDING" is the opinion OF DR..
8. Parkes Cadmen.
when n scientist ventures into
theology no is as much at loss as n
theologlan when he wanders Into
science.