The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-07-29


science knows him today, they were
grossly ignorant. They knew the
physical man when they saw him on
the street or in the market place, at
work or play, but their knowledge of
his physiological makeup was of the
most meagre kind. They didn't know
anything about appendicitis, infan-
tile paralysis, aphasia or brain storms.
Surgery had not become fashionable
at that time. They knew nothing
about hypnctism, etherization or the
x-ray. They never dreamed that men
had within him the potentials that
would ever enable him to fly in the
air and float under the see or send
his voice across the continent without
wires"
"What you say, Doc, is quite true.
, 1t is about the way history puts it.
There is an awful gulf between Jobs
definition of man as he knew him and
the definition that science gives of
him today. There is no doubt about
Jobs belief in an immortal life, be-
cause that belief is ingrained in the
hearts of men; that belief was born
in the minds of men and is found in
the lowest, most illiterate tribes of
men. But in the time of Job they be-
lived in a resurreected physical life,
and even buried with the so-called
/ dead their tools, trinkets and keep
sakes that they might be handy when
the awakeing call should come. So
replying to Jobs question from the
viewpoint of his definition of man,
say he will live again, but more accu-
rately speaking, keep right on living,
but he will have a new body. There
would be no object in passing out or
dying if we had to continue life's jour-
ney in the same old worn out vehicle
of resurrected body Now if you
have found any flaws in my argument,
Doc, just kindly point them out"
"Well Sam, you speak rather plain
ly and positively, just like you had
some advance information. thought
you would try to give me little dig,
you're so fond of fun, but this is no
funny subject, Doc.
PHILOSOPHERS tell US that we can
not learn, can not know anything only
as we study it by contrasts, opposites
and its relation to other things. Hense
it follows that before we can know
what a man is and his destiny, we
must learn what his position is in the
universe-how he is related to it and
to his Creator.
"Man can not reason only from
what he knows, but reason has been
given him for a purpose-and it is
not mere accident-and it has en-
abled him to go very far afield and
to know things that he could not see
or taste or touch.
"Man is both an effect and crea-
ton, and man has learned by much
observation, research and experiment
| to trace things back to their source.
He has found that the same cause
under the same conditions always pro-
duces the same effect. He has found
that our sun is composed of the same
elements as the earth and that man
is likewise chemically composed in
| his physical being and that back of,
the sun and stars there is one creative
cause for all of us. He has found
that there is one unbroken bond that
relates self-conscious mind in man to
| the universal consciousness, the uni
versal life and intelligence of his Gre
ator.
eve never find any attributes in a
creature or a creation but what pre-
existed in the mind of their creator.
| We find in man that the first law of
his nature is his life's self-preserva-
ton here and now and that his in
stinctive desire to- perpetuate his life
beyond the grave is a divine inheri-
lance.
| In man we find wisdom, power, love,
mercy, kindness and many other good
qualities and as they exist in man we
know that they first existed in our
Maker. Thus we learn the nature of
our Creator by discovering Him in
all His manifest creations.
God rules the universe by virtue of
His immutable laws. They are made
in justice to all men and for the ben
eft of all men. He has endowed all
men of all colors, of all nations with
His own eternal life without partial
ity. He has given them all freedom
of the will, given US all laws by which
to govern our lives, our health, happi-
ness, our social and financial success,
our technical and industrial achieve
ments. He has raised the aggregate
minds of humanity to high state of
intelligence and marvellous accom-
plishments; has taught man how to
find unseen worlds and compute their
distance; how to find microscopic life,
the deadly microbe and toxic bacillus
and how to find their antidotes. He
has evolved man from a low estate