The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-10-24
The Chemistry of Life AS Seen by
Correspondent of The. Republican.

Correspondent Vi Inc, RepuDllcdH.
To the Editor of The Republican.
Life is self-existent, self, perpetual
ed. 1t is creative of all finite forms of
life and lives by vitue of ceaseless
changes.
Nothing continues for long in the
form which it began, for life is a pro-
gressive growth, fraught with expan-
sion, diversifcation, multiplication and
improvement.
Life is the source of all intelligence,
of all power and energy IN its many
forms. 1t is a unity throughout, yet
its many manifestations are seemingly
paradoXical.
The ether Of space is life's habita-
ton, its laboratory, its medium Of at
traction, repulsion and transmission.
This great ethereal OCEAN of mata-
physical substance contains the poten-
tan properties of all hfe's created
things.
1t is natures storehouse Of basic
raw material and by life's involution
of energy within the ether are suns
whirled into spheres of flaming gas,
radiating heat and light and farming
centers of force through which life
creates planets, moons and men, While
life is unity, it is also trinity and
the three factors Clfe, energy, ether)
are inseparable and always act as CO.
efficients and coextensive throughout
time and space.
When life is not dynamic it is al
ways dormant or static, never extinct.
1t cannot be excluded from any plane,
any place or any thing. Man is an out
growth of the universe, like a mineral
or a metal, beast, bird or tree.
He is a finite part of life's infinite
whole, the charaster of which he par
! takes in both soul and substance. For
| is is a law of life that like begets like
and that all finite forms of life are be-
gotten from one antecedent source of
life.
Life is governed by laws, the observ
ance of which constitute life's being.
The physical universe is ruled by laws.
Laws are the outgrowth of life's ne
cessities. Life is imbued with pur-
pose-a far-off goal or reach; it is
possessed with desire, design and a
will to achieve it's intellectual attain
ments, it's aesthetical and ethical at
tribues through materializing itself in
man las an epitome of itself in wis
dom, love and power) as the highest
medium for life's innumerable forms
of expression.
As life is helpless to express its
values in the midnight darkness and
glacial cold of the ether-living as a
formless force-necessity compelled 1t
to make light and heat to make plan
cts, a mineral kingdom, on which to
rest vegetable kingdom, with which
to feed ana support an animal king
dom out of which, after thousands Of
millions of years it could evolve the
kingdom of man, life's browning work
of its creative art.
Know this, that life has no worth
while values to man or his Maker un-
til it can clothe and embody itself in
material forms on some planet and en-
dow them with self-motion, self-con-
seriousness and freedom of will.
The law of conservation dominates
through all life's changing phenome-
ma, so that not one atom of life's en-
ergy or it's substance can ever be lost.
Hence man, the mind, is born i'm
mortal by virtue of his kinship to his
Maker, being a finite but vital part of
the infinite whole of life.
If any power could destroy one finite
part of life it could annihilate all its
parts. the infinite whole, which is in
conceivable.
The chemistry of life is marvellous
to contemplate. The untutored mind is
held spell-bound in awe and reverent
fear by it's seemingly miraculous
transformations, yet no m.Sc"le IN the
sense of being supernatural has ever
occurred or can occur.
In mans present state Of undevel-
opment it is impossible for him to
know the absolute and the why, be-
cause part can never encompass the
whole; but concerning the how of
life's ways and workings man has
achieved a wondrous understanding
wisdom.
Trees, ferns, flowers and fruit, mon
KEYS and men are all chemical pro-
ducts of the universe. They are all
parts of its elemental substance and
grown out of it-not by the material
lists theory of chance-but by hfe's
desire and design have the atoms and
elements been guided, how and when
to unite and cooperate for the eleva-
ton of life, from the darkest depths
of obscurity to the self-illumined pin
nacle of perfection where wisdom and
worth, love and leisure, joy and JUS
tice shall crown it's work as the all
creative alchemist.
AMONG men life is known and de-