The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-18
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Mans Destiny Lies Onward.


Omaha-To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: II seems rather astound-
ing that a person of such common
sense intelligence as DR.. Harry Emer-
son Fosdick would ask the futile ques-
tions attributed to him I'm his Easter
sermon at Plymouth church the other
day.
The human body is composed OF
chemicals. worth about 9S cents. rs
that compound chemical hlunder Of
nature. or do you think that within
the ephemeral life there is an abiding
eternal shrine2' On the one hand
we have Haeckels definition of man
as a gaseous vertebrate. and vet the
Testament SAYS he is semi-god.
Which are we?
Is there any reason why we are not
BOTH or even more? The physical
body is what Haeckel meant; the Tes-
lament had reference TO the soul
The 9S cents worth of material repre-
sents the vehicle which affords the
soul residing place; Just as velvet
casket holds gem of purest water
or the bulb the incandesent ray OF
light. There are really three bodies
In one in each and every human
being; the physical or chemical. the
mental. and the spiritual. Without
the physical, the mental and the spir-
itual could not function-so far as
we at present know-here on earth.
without the mental. mans mindiwould
he blank: without the spiritual. man
would be among the lowest forms OF
life. II needs the three combined to
make the higher animal. man.
Man has been placed In the universe
for the purpose OF evolving into
higher or superbeing. like the Christ
or Buddha. and Immortality of the
soul is truth. Many "civiliza tons"
have come crashing to the earth for
the reason that they are mainly arti-
fetal and superficial. We experiment
with life. and out of the experiments
comes CLEANS of wisdom which bene-
fit us In the long run. Many of the
things we evolve out of material
means through mental action are use
less as well as harmful. but we learn
4 lesson from 1t. and that means one
more step upward In the scheme of
evolution The soul Is the flame of
life. as the sun is the civer of life.
God Is. There Is not death: merely
change. FRANCIS KEITH.
God Versus Infidelity-Evolution.
Omaha To the Editor of The
Omaha Bee: During the past weeks.
through the city newspapers, several
nfidel-evolutionists OF mixed genders.
have accused me Of breaking into
print They do not state how they
got into the sacred precincts of the
newspa apers-probably crawled in
under
Is 1t not highly believable that
considering the marvels of the uni
verse. wherein some master mind
must have created and perpetuated H.
The Psalmist I'm exclaiming, "The fool
hath said in his heart there Is no
God" uttered 1t in piteous lamentation
that any puny human could be so bar
rem OF spiritual understanding as TO
utter such. thing or all the individ
Ials extsnt prolific in citing evidence
regarding a nonexistant personal God
without proof. the infidel.evolutionlst
is supreme. And the smaller the men
tai csliher of the agnostic. the better
eiter. They insist that the public
libraries teem with evidence showing
the existence OF God was disproved
long ago. They do not saw who van
nuished God. In substance they still
insist that our forebears got their
start on their Two hind legs. probably
supporting themselves by an ele
nhants tail or something until their
feet became spread out so they could
walk about: that somehow their front
claws became straightened out so that
no longer they could Climb trees with
their fellowspes. and were forced 20
the use Of clubs TO kill their meat.
The inhdelevolutionist' prophets.
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furnishing much fascinating litera
ture. just as Mark Twaln's "Innocents
Abroad" was fascinating. never fur
njshed the slightest proof Of non
existent. ruling God. All Of their
regulations were built In solely upon
their great intelleets. and all left the
world no better or wiser for their hav
ing lived Where reposes names of
tl.ese men today. when we with heart
felt sentiment celebrate Lincoln's.
McKinley's or Washington's birthday?
Under how many LAYERS OF dust re-
poses Paynes Age OF Reason" when
The sordid theatrical magnate are dra-
matizing with great profit "Joseph's
Bonda ee" or I" THE Ten Command
ments?' Luther Burbank. doubtless
the greatest authority living or dead
touching embryo life. has never pre-
tended 10 furnish the slightest proof
II mans evolution from the lower ami
NAL kingdom. The greatest OF all
nvolutionists. Huxley. Tyndall and
Faeckel. never have furnished the
slightest mathematical proof regard
ing mans evolution from the lower
animal kingdom: and their theories OF
evolution are predicated upon supposi-
ton and not ON scientific fact.
II IL true that no Christian can abb
solutely prove all tenets of his faith.
for God IL spiritually discerned, hut
somehow we can not helm but believe
that this faith on the part of the
Christian has heen permitted to com
pare England. France and America. at
least nominallv Christian. 10 China,
India and Africa.
GEORGE n. CHILD.