The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-03-29
SERMONETTE


again2-Job 14:14.
At this season OF the year,
the mind Of humanity turns to
the great question Of the immor-
tally Of the soul. From time
immemorial men have discussed
and questioned the eternity Of
the soul and stumbled at that
for which they have had no tan
gihlt proof. Whence came man?
Does he live on after physical
death? What IS his end? are
some OF the great questions that
have arrested the minds of sages
and philosophers of every cline
and age. The musings of the
ancient, the deductions and con
illusions of the logicians Of all
times have left men stumbling in
the dark and dusky shades of
comparative ignorance to grope
his way with fear and trembling
through a labyrinth of doubt
and confusion. Because there
has been no ready answer of the
human mind and no audible
voice to declare the truth. many
have given over in despair and
have denied the resurrection of
tn body and consigned the soul
of man to everlasting oblivion.
Even today there are countless
numbers who because they can
not reason out the fact and be-
cause they cannot accommodate
such a truth to their earth-born
ideas, dismiss the question with
a wave of the hand or a shrug
of the shoulders. But what of
the truth?
In the midst of all this doubt
and ignorance of the humiln
mind the trend of the human
mind the trend of the human
soul has ever led In the direc-
ton of immortality. Men have
always desired It and felt that
in some way II must be reality
and there must ever be a CORE
lation between desire and full
fillment. As we study life we
must ever be impressed with the
fact that the longest and most
successful life Is yet an incom-
plete and unfinished one. How
death blights and curtails and
stops? Can it be concluded To-
gically that life at best begins
here shall forever remain In
complete. unfinished and a mere
fragment? Shall not those I'M
realized hopes and ambitions and
desires that stir and struggle in
our breasts, have a full and last
ing and perfect realization? Our
souls answer yes. thousand
times, yes.
The Power of Belief
In the New Testament, the
resurrection of the body and the
immortality of the soul are not
only made clear and plain by
Jesus Christ but the doctrine be-
comes the foundation of the
Christian hope and the very ba-
sis of things divine. Christ said
to his discipes: Because 1 live
We shall live also" The empty
tomb of Christ is the triumphant
eonsumation, climax and vindiea
ton OF life immortal. When we
link on to Christ by faith, we
become new creatures in Him
and the hollow delusions and in
definite conceptions become glor-
ious realities and living, Yitaliz-
ing actualities. Jesus Christ a
rose from the dead by the power
of the Father. He lives, and
living Savior guarantees ever
lasting life to those who are
joined to Him by living faith.
Paul exulting in the status of
the believer cries out: 20 death
where is they sting? o grave
where is thy victory" and as
we stand awaiting an answer by
the grave of the righteous dead,
we hear the words of the Naz
arene declaring: 81 am the re-
surrection and the life, he that
believeth in me, though he were
dead, yet shall he live; and who
soever liveth and believeth in
me- shall never die" Jesus has
answered the question once for
all.