Show AS THOSE it WHO VHO flO fA HAVE VB NO D HOPE No thoughtful mind mind- can cnn read the funeral sermon sermon sermon ser ser- ser ser- mon of A. A D. D Searle of f Leadville me without a a. tear teal of pity pitr He Be was a strong character charad I an and yet Jet a lamentably lamenta lamenta- bl bly weak one strong one strong in that he felt the need of no noone noone noone one to lean on weak in that he lie could not miot see how little he lie was Over Oer his bier hier his autographic sermon sermon ser ser- mon was read From the time coflin he lie told the mourners mourners mourners mourn mourn- ers that he had bad long been convinced all rt religions m are of human origin and are frauds that can only gain credence through h ignorance and superstition and that he could not form any idea iden of a soul that was to live i after his body was lead dead But Bitt what boots it if this narrow mind lid did stigmatize all believers as ignorant and superstitious His statement does docs not affect the tile real truth of the matter He would have baye us follow his alleged light and deride the belief of such sueh men as Lincoln and Gladstone and Newton and anda a thousand other of the greatest and noblest minds of the world Will ViII any sane nan say that Lincoln was an ignoramus or a fraud Will any one say that of Gladstone or Gen Grant or 01 the late Inte Wil- Wil V l- l Hum iain McKinley And yet these were all believers in religion and devout ont worshippers Such a conception concep tion is beyond reason renson and could only be imagined by a mind hopelessly warped by its own egregious egotism More lore and more the world is coming to believe believe be be- lieve in the the- finite things of man and the infinite things of God Even the religious nonreligious are rapidly veering awa away from materialism and recognizing the existence of another thing called spirit mind or soul The Time best science no longer tries to get away from this inevitable light The fhe departed miner Searle loved loyed in life and mourned in death would no doubt have changed his views and his horizon had he lived longer We e can only drop a tear of pity that light di lid did not break upon his vision in this world |