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Show "IS i I ! I lVtlllTH LIVING ?" ! This uesf ion xvas asked and partially answered yesterday from one of the palpite xif Sail LaUe. Volumes have been written uncounted sermons delixered in the. endeavor en-deavor to answer the above universal question ques-tion of the human heart. Alxvnys and every where the mnrritea attempt to answer it satisfaetorially to the individual judi; mciit J permeates every wajs&g moment mo-ment of an active life, and as the generations come and yo, each leaves it as a problematical legacy to its successor. The concensus of the best thouirht of the civilised aes agrees in a general way, that the application of the distinctive principles of the Christian religion furnish the best, if not the only, answer to be ghrea in this life. For in all abiding pecularities of so-called heathen religious and philosophic systems, the existence of j a great first cause and a belief in the itn-I itn-I mortality of the human soul is inculcated. To live a moral life and learn and wait, while "hope springs eternal in the human breast," i are teachings of them all. "To eat, drink ! and be merry fur tomorrow we shall die;" is ! the verdict of madness and the thouglilTess : teaching of despair. To make this life only a stepping-stone to happiness, according to 1 the varying notions of poor infantile hu-I hu-I inanity, lias neither the endorsement of j reason nor the practical element of sue-I sue-I ceaa In continuous trial. That the world is making progress in solving the I problem i evident in the reluctance of ! nations to enter into useless and murderous I wars, in the progress of a true civilization, i in the multiplication of comfortable and re-! re-! lined homes, In the increase of hospitals and and asylums for the atilicted: of temples of education and religion: and Anally In the increasing volume of good living and triumphant tri-umphant dying. The consciousness of each individual must answer the twin questions, "Is this life , worth living"'" and "If a mau die shall he I live again V" Upon the right answer Ue-I Ue-I jiends his own comfort and his real use and j standing in the community of which he is a I Prt- |