The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-08-07
is LIFE WORTH LIVING?
Grafton Delivered before the Waita Society Waa Hot Radun
Waunia Springs, Colorado Thursday, August 7h 1924

tudes have become panic stricken the cry goes forth
from millions of voices the world SIS life worth
lving? Millions standing ready to answer, NO
We them now, living host with pale tired, al
ghostke faces from which all trace Of joy has fed
bowed with grief crouching under expressing thought Of
and s.perstition tired Of life and yet afraid to
aspiring in despair and looking into anothers eyes
and asking Thousand times Of their fellows "Is Life
Really Worth Livng?" Millions in despair and reck
less the future Many seek oblivion in suicide
Many others find forgetfulness from mbbing Of alcohol
which adds their of spirit and drives its victims
into depths of crime and insanity The highways of
lifes journey strewn with human wrecks. The rich
the weak and suffering Is it strange wonder that
looking upon this compelled to exclaim
us LIFE WORTH LIVING?"
And ask what ails this beautiful world Of ours?
Nothing The world good and God is in His heaven There
is nothing the matter with the inhabitants OF the world
TODAY but ignorance And owing this ignorance they
ill., physically, mentally and spiritually The inab
tants of the earth sick They need physician The
mind is unbalanced. We are divided into little groups
factions cults Of various kinds each claiming they
have found the truth. There many religions all
pointing the way to higher life. Everywhere men are
happiness Variable kinds of governments insituted
all the way from absolute monarchies to the most liberal
form of democracy.
Each for his favorite happiness contends,
And spurns the plan that aims at other ends
Both consciously and unconsciously man is striving
for something, like the chick struggling in the SHELL
sheltered the warmth of the mothers breast is strv
ing to break through to larger world SO man. with
agony and in this dark unknown searching-for
what? Searching for his God.
The religions Of the world divided into factions
ects and are constantly wrangng against one another
The professed followers of Christ divided into almost
innumerable groups each condemnng the others and
claiming they have found the only way to Salvation
What caused this clash Of opinions What? Nothing but
ignorance-pure unaduterated ignorance. They
things concerning which they nothing
minds very much of the babling of two children dis
cussng the subject to who painted the rainbow one
said God did it, and the other declared it painted by
the who painted her fathers barn As the centuries
GO by and advance, science will lead u.s. Science is
moral science is uplifting science is truth and truth is
God.
Everything is done by law. When we don't under
stand it call it supernatural miracle. But the
truth the supernatural does exist All that is is
natural Law prevails only physical world but
also in the spiritual world 1t all is under the guidance
and supervision of the One First Great Cause God and
He works by law throughout the universe.
The greatest study that occupy the mind of man
is the study of man himself. He is a mcrocosm and in
his body and spirit mirrored the whole mystery of life
of time out Of the storehouse nature struggling
against the forces Of matter learning how adapt him
self to his abode and only realizing that in the beyond
there something that called him to higher and better
things and in this attitude of mind he caught gmpses
of his God This impulse of development has been slow
and marked by long periods of rest recession
This evolution 1t has been the urge of the spirit
find its home for the mortal to realize immortaty-the
eartl-an searching for his God Man has been evolut
ing for millions of years and he has ascended in the
scale of consciousness the horizon his vision has
creased and gradually given him a wider view and bet
ter understanding to his environment and his relation
to creation We also observe that in all the realms
nature in department of life there is law. When
gress growth health happiness and life abundant Dis
obedience to this law manifests degeneration disease
vice. crime insanity and death But victory is coming
We have been looking through the darkness. The
day is breaking and awaits the future generation of
humanity 1t is only question of time We shall
ceed We making rapid strides in that direction As
look back through the misty ages and watch the
pilgrimage of toiling humanity CROPPING along the rugged
and thorny pathway with bleeding feet and
faces, astounded to the progress they have
made and the heights which they stand And now
science and theology join hands the world
They must do it We have arrived where the two
meet Every intelligent educated the
glory of the coming of the Lord and shout Halleluja
Why? Because science and religion henceforth will walk
hand hand We conquering the forces of the world
and by the light of the dawn of New Day can
soon realize stand the threshold of
Evil negative and dies 1t is consumed by eternal
living truth Truth is the motive power of evolution and
it lives forever Evil dies and out of blossoms truth
beauty and holiness 1t is portrayed everywhere in
tture Out of the muddy of the mipond reeking
with the muck and slime of decaying sewage-in the
course of time the beautiful pond lilies to charm
the and send forth their fragrant perfume 1t the
evil mind that evil But all that is and endures
lis good, And when have this vision of the predom
nence of good life has entirely different aspect HUI
manity is not all lost There are armies of splendid men
and women marching along the evoluting highways and
beckonng the multitude strive toward the heights o
perfection In world that has produced such beings St
Paul who gave his life striving the TRUTH and Jesus
Christ who in agony the exclaimed Father. for
GUS Lincoln who witnessing the last struggle of
quered foe utterance to the immortal words With
malice toward with charity for ALL" With these
and thousands other xampes of noble lives recorded
the pages Of history, need not be discouraged
), Continued next week)