Show the triumph of life over death by rev henry cl anton hay of the an church HE resurrection means that his earths earth ls body that the man lives on after the death of earthly body dies Is a matter of universal observation and exper ence but that the man ceases on that account to love and think plan and execute in the world of love and wisdom and spiritual expression is an inference without the slightest warrant from observation of expert ence the most that can be said is that he no longer appears to the senses of earthly bodies when his own earthly body Is lost as a means of earthly ex but that there is an in dwell eg love and thought world con scantly animating shaping and em plowing matter and giving to it its values is macfeat in every human experience that man comes forth from this inner world not only in the beginning of his existence but in ezery act of his intellect will and body we know it is therefore reasonable to con elude that he cont to exist in it when the body returns to the dust whence it has been taken but a body of another kind the organism of the man himself in his own spirit ual substance must then be laid bare as the instrument of self con ness and of expression and usefulness to others life as we know it Is a constan the tomb of the past is the womb of the future all na ture is constantly dying the tissues of the earthly body are constantly dying life is a continual triumph der this universal death and progress Is made possible only by this process of resurrection the immortality and progress of the human soul and of h iman society consist thus in the creator s triumph over death laster is a memorial of all this triumph of life oyer death not only in nature but also in humanity the germ of life in evera human breast is thus raised up when the body returns to the d all that has been belabor abed within that material husk all the love of right or wrong of truth or balaity of wisdom or folly of use falness or destructiveness unfolds and bears it fru ts determining the man s character as an angel or devil forever u |