Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-03-24
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There are yet the evidences of
wreck and ruin in many parts of the
world, while scarcely a single por-
ton has been left untouched by the
spirit of destruction which was sum-
mOned up to do it's dread work. But,
still, considered subjectively, the
hearts Of men have taken on a diff
ferent emotions. The reconstruction
time has already been entered into
in material affairs. Plans are shap-
ing for the bringing into being of a
,apew world. Even those not imbued
with the highest motives look for
ward with expectation to the rear
rangement in which they will per-
haps have share of the glory and
from which they will derive some of
the profit. Nor are their prospective
iabors to be altogether condemned.
They are of such as Augustus, who
found a Rome of brick and left one
OF marble, of Louis Napoleon, who
won an empire by coup d'etat and
Immediately proceeded to straighten
the streets of Paris.
Beyond and above this is the sense
of participation in a new world which,
it may be, will possess within it.
self new hopes and aspirations. I'm
questiOnably, this emotion is not alb
sent from the hearts of men, albeit
do Of I,.i,
world about are not agreed upon by
all. 1t is equally beyond question that
the possibility of a newer and better
system of social and political order
depends for its contamination upon
definite changes in the attitude of men
toward such problems, and consequent
ly toward each other. Thus there is
recognized to have come to pass, in
Stinctively, a new attitude, or at least
a fresh impetus, toward q whole host
OF ideals, which, in what has been de-
nominated the canker Of long peace,
found no effective place.
Not a bit of this, however, can af-
feet the objective side of the situation.
for the simple reason that no faith.
however robust, can of itself make a
truth of the thing believed in. That
1t can affect most profoundly those who
believe, however, is one of the most
universally attested of all truths. To
that extent, therefore, there are evil
denceS that the principle of resurrec-
ton has mighty and widespread
hold on humanity at the present time.
1t were we'll to ponder the objective
side Of this most solemn and at the
same time engaging doctrine of the
Christian faith, albeit it is more than
mere doctrine. The far earlier re-
iigion, from which Christianity in a
sense emerged, included a firm belief
in the resurrection. The calm word
uttered to the Sadducees was that the
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was
not the God Of the dead, but of the
living. This faith in various guises
was held by many others. Plato ar
gued intellectually on the immortal
ity of the soul, and the tabled phoenix
which arose from its own ashes pre-
scented the truth in another form.
Sweetly circumstantial is the sa-
cred account. The order Of events
then paralleled the sequence of our
lsOwn recent world experience. After
the darkness and the earthquake,
the period Of suffering, came the holy
calm. The transition was complete.
There was no longer, for the mo-
ment, question of sin or RESPONSE
bility. Every question had been met.
The moral universe had been cleared
by IL narfect sacrifice The sun