New Britain herald., 1923-04-02

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 could be proved, if ,s all so-called spiritual communications arc said to show there is a futuI. world this does
 not answer the question whether ar not We here can cross over into this world. It is a matter of assumption that Is in the region of faith. On the other hand let us hasten to add that if we do not know of fact that there is a future liir, so We do not know that there isn't, The scientific world. according to the confession of leading men of science today, has not the slightest evidence that the scul does not live after death, When, therefore, man denies the fact of immortality he does not know what he is talking about. and he cannot know. In the nature of the case 1t is impossible, and so far as prcsump- tions go they are by far mostly on the side of belief of this future life. The skeptic says No and has very little evidence. The Christian be- liever says Yes and has very much of intelligent witness. One of these evidences is the fact that man is born with an unquenchabe desire to live on. This has been known from the earliest recorded history. It has been the strongest in the finest minds. The worlds greatest poets, the most noted philosophers. the nobiest founders of the various religions, the most nota-
 ble statesmen-have all held tena- oia fo t te
 man mind has developed this great idea and exalted it. It is unreason- able to think that God would put such an idea into n-nn's mind. give it encouragement and development, and provide no corresponding re- ality Since He has provided for the
 fulfillment of all hui.ian needs and desires, it is unthinkable that He would leave this one alone unsatis- fled.
 "A second witness is that which Job suggests. Job noted that nature re- newed herself in various ways, and then wondered if it must net be so with man. Here he came upon one of natures great laws which is that there is no waste in nature, that while the form of the matter may be changed the substance is still there. that nothing is really lost in the nat ural world; energy is always con served though working in different ways If. therefore, God has pro- vided so carefully for the renewal of the natural and inanimate, how can one think that he would deal les, thoughtfully with that one part of the universe that bears His mental, moral, and spiritual image. This is the idea which Tennyson works out in his great poem:
 Shall He,
 Man. her last work, who seemed so
 fair,
 Such splendid purpose in Ills eyes. Who trusted God was love indeed. And love creations final law.
 Who loved, who suffered countless ills, Who battled for the True, the Just, Be blown about the desert duss. Or sealed within the iron hills? No more?
 What hope of answer or redress? Behind the veil behind the veil.'
 With Tennyson, we too say it is too much to ask US to believe that a loving God would be solicitous to pre- serve nature, but doom human beings to extinction.
 Another witness is the constant call of life to moral development. We are ever being urged to do the right and to forsake the evil, to strive after moral living. This has been a per sistent call of human nature from the 1 beginning, and yet in face of this here are so many hindrances, so | many temptations so many restric- hat a man does not get real chance. l He is just beginning to see and achieve fine things and the moral life | when he is cut off. It does not seem air, and the only sane conclusion is hat there must be another world in | which these instincts, these moral inn | pulses can be developed without the obstacles that arc encountered here.
 Still another witness is the general | of our human life. There s so much misery in life; so many | ,ever seem to have chance to b. happy; so much sin and evil, greed, | nate, avarice, injustice go unpunished, hat it makes an aspiring and reason- lble soul demand another chance where those who are thus handi- ,apped here by hard and bitter cir can have the opportunity which is theirs by right, and where Ill such inequalities are eliminated.
 ITO these we add the great truth if Easter Day which is the assurance if Jesus Christ-of His resurrectior. Nothing short of His actual return so hat He was known of His disciples ould have so changed these men rom dejected, ashamed, resentfu of defeaud and dead 4ord to men with new spirit of aring, and unquenchable ardor, and nwafering, unbeatable, determina- ion. This change was no hoax and 10 deceit, but was brought about by n undebatable certainty that they lad seen the Lord. Job says If a man lie, shall he live again?' To this the isciples in the New Testament an- wer Christ is risen,' and He hath rought life and immortality to light.
 Tn our youth when life is fresh, nd we are surrounded by friends and oved ones, we think little of this reat truth. But in our advancing manhood, as experiences and circum- tances change and friends go on into
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