Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-05-05

l hrmly believe with Prof. Geo. H.
Palmer who wrote of his gifted and
beloved wife, "Who can contemplate
the fact of her death and not call the
world irrational if out of Difference
to few particles of disordered mat
ter it excludes so fair spirit? ?" Is
it unfair for me to say that I refuse
to believe that God squanders human
life, persons who have faiths and as
pirations like ours, as He wastes
midges and sea-pawn. To/be reason
able, we must believe that the univer-
sal outlook of men towards immor-
tally is proof that We have another
life to be added to this life to COM
plete it. In what other way are we
able to give sane explanation of the
apparent waste which follows when
noble lives are arrested by DEATH? If
there is no living again beyond the
grave the "whole stupendous pile of
atoms is an insane sandheap." To
me, it is both preposterous and IRA
tional to believe that God does not
conserve values. He is All-Wise. Is
he reasonable or just to allow TO be
wasted life's richest virtues and val
ues? When great intellects like that
Of Pasteur leave US, when strong in
tiuential characters like that of the
eminent statesman Gladstone leave US,
are these values finally lost? If so,
we must be living in a "mad uni
verse" Love joy, peace, goodness,
beauty, truth-these are the attri-
butes of God. Will God stultify
them? Are they to be lost when the
garment Of flesh is cast away? Are
the costly battles, the heroic achieve
ments, the moral victories of humani-
ty destined to some dumping ground
as rubbish? Is genuine Christian fra
GRANGE to be wasted? If so, this
world is tragic farce.
Life is training ground both for
this life and for the next. The fact
of eternal life solves the problem of
the incompleteness and the limitations
of human life on this earth. Ger
tainly life beyond the veil will furn-
ish US with opportunities for the full
exercise and development Of all our
faculties, both latent and active. "Tell
me not that larger sphere and
greater possibilities and nebler work
await me not, says the broken work
er in the school Of this present life.
How demonstrably true it is that we
mature physically, but never approach
mental, moral or spiritual maturity.
In our hearts we feel that we are to
become far greater than we are now.
We are confident we have in us pow
ers that we shall never be able to de-
velop perfectly; we have strength that
is thwarted; we have ideals that shall
never be realized in this life. We are
able to give expression to only part
Of our personality here. Are there
any who succeed in the full expression
Of their lives in this world? In fact,
are not our faculties stunted, our
powers suppressed, our gifts denied
the perfect enlargement? In the
limited sphere allotted to man, life is
hampered and hindered, our plans for
betterment are frustrated, and our
spirits in an attempt at perfection are
fretted and wearied. Cramped by this
life as we are, we cannot give full
play to personality. It is with un-
swerving conviction that I believe in
the next life we will have a chance to
respond to all the limitless and unde-
veloped powers Of mind, soul and
spirit.
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