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Show THE rtlSING T8 HIGHER THINGS. From whatsoever that Is dead within us shall there not come a resurrection of good? Shall we not make a crucifixion cruci-fixion of each wrong of nature, growing through our years until that scnltcn-tlal scnltcn-tlal time, and then, answering the call, shall wo not bury It and later see the blossom of good and faith spring forth to beautify our lives and the lives of others? O Christ! O Christ, who lived and died amidst lesser things, to show the way from lower things to higher things; on this great day let us ascend in thought as thou didst ascend until we can learn the pure lesson, that Thou hast made for man that will last forever! for-ever! O man! O man. dwelling amidst the lesser things of life; canst thou hot see beyond thee, ever shining, the path that the wondrous self-dcnlcr Christ did make! This brief mortality of ours Is but one tiny little space In all the journey of spiritual life. Immortality Is as true as Is existence. If we were not, we are not: If we will not be hereafter, then still wo are noL We have within us all that power of progresssion; and Uie power which Is Immeasurable, eternal, eter-nal, indestructible. Men may end this mortal career by act of 6clf; or they may, by justice or by horrible crime, end mortality fqr others. But the immortal im-mortal part cannot be destroyed by man himself, either for himself or for others. And from this little sphere, when Its sun rises and sets for us no more, we will go to other things, sometimes greater things vaster to us than the affairs of this poor planet, as this planet is larger to the insect that burrows bur-rows in the earth than la Its own little hillock here. It Is conceivable that some who dwell here shall find in experience beyond be-yond a fall so heavy from this sphere of mortal mingling as that aeons nnd aeons of time will pass in the contemplation contem-plation of lives destroyed, and of ruin wrought where opportunity existing for good was viciously turned away. But for most of the children of men, holding hold-ing the eternal snark within them, surely the passage will be upward ns it Is constant; and dwelling In other reaches of the Immeasurable abode of space, will find awaiting larger power for larger good. "What matters a little form of a little croeed? Christ gave to us a mighty lesson: that one comes to sacrifice and love and passes beyond Into a greater glory. And from His life, learning the lesson of sacrifice and love, wo have a Christ, no matter what our creed or our lack of creed- For these things as examples never die: repeating themselves them-selves again and again within the lives of millions who suffer and die, and give their lives to bless beloved ones. And for every one of the Immortals, unto whom Christ made example will come the time of gaining Chrlstly glory by suffering death and loving beyond life and death the children of some allotted sphere. " ( All that Is good in us today, we resurrect res-urrect from all that is bad In us. The grave is -a noisome Dlnce. Even the cave where Christ's body lay may not have been a sweet abode; but out of It He came. And out of soiled, sinful things let our diviner hopes come to better desires and better deeds, so that the resurrection Indeed shall have been wrought for us; that by daily, yearly resurrection by our struggle we may become befitted for the self-denying ueath-the crucifixion, the denying of self for a brotherhood sweeter than self. |