The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-12-02

out of these we get out certainties,
Possibilities. probabilities, certainties.
The mind naturally runs from cause
to effect, and from effect 10 cause.
st. Augustine said: The human
soul is made by Cod It is made fo-
God, and it is ever at unrest until it
finds its rest in God
Things are so, not because they
are in the Bible. necessarily. but it
gives US greater faith in the Bible
when We find that only those things
which are so are in the Bible.
Is Something in Man.
IF this universe Of ours exists for
itself, it is an anomaly. If the uni
verse exists for anything less than
itself. it is waste. If it exists for
anything greater than itself, what is
that something? This will very soon
lead US to the old Scotchman's answer
of two hundred and fifty years ago:
Mans chief end is to glorify God and
enjoy him forever Now, why is il
that religion can make something out
Of a man? 1t is because there is that
something in him. What has this be
life in immortality done for the n2-
tions?
The Ego, the Am, cries out for
immortality. Reason finds in the
mind material for immortality. From
the instinct of nature we get further
arguments. We ransack nature in
vain for a single instance where shC
has deceived her children, the birds,
the bee, the ant and the beaver. Ma
ture uses great skill in guiding beasts
and birds, but is is a bungling blunder
in guiding man, if there is no immoT-
tality. I am not a creature limited
to the body. The Creator shall not
be reduced to an infinite cook and
! running a racial restaurant. When :
/ tree leaves and flowers and fruits, t
dies. but no such restriction holds the
mind of man. The mind goes on for
ever. Not even the ripest scholar
| mas touched the limit Neither can 4
| Webster exclude a Burke. and no
! DaVinci excludes a Michael Angelo
No limitation or restriction holds the
mind. This alone is enough to prove
that immortality must be. Shall Raph,
| ael on canvass, and shall St. PauES
cathedral. standing for three centu-
ries, and Sir Christopher Wren perish
! forever from Gods universe? Such
! cannot be without blaming the Gre
ator with a moral mOnstrOsity.
Are Limited by Body
"Science tells US today that the
earth is flying through space at a rate
! OF 19 miles per second. We accept II
! because it is founded on data that sat
| isfes the reason. They tell US Of lum
| inous ether. We believe it because
they proceed to demonstrate. Science
tells US that matter and force are in
destructible. We benevcit, because it
too, is founded upon data which salts
| fes reason. Now. if matter and force
are indestructible, what Of personal
ity? 1t would be harder to destrO,
personality than matter and force
| am, is known tn me ] think and con
tinue to think and if it is known t.
me that think and I continue to th!nl
I continue to be, and If personal ident
! ity is indestTuctible, Immortality
the most bcIiavable doctrine in all tn
world Our great difficulty is We ar
limited to the body; as We are, we car
not conceive Of a soul existing sepa
rate from the body
Il believe Tie dead have taken o.
a form that cannot report itself t
these decayiuG senses which we ca
the body We have seen our power
disintegrate before our eyes. MemOr
crumbles. ImaginatiOn fails. ReasO