Show I 5 T NATURE I CONFIRMING P. Baltimore American The Thc basis generally g suggested fr from m the f for r a future life liCe Is Ia faith faith faith-faith faith In rocla tion This dos loeS lo not appeal as ns strongly to some ome minds as M to others other anti and anything w strengthens faith in n revelation is worth worthy of notice furnishes a stron strong argument nt for a future life lIet With Uh tho the future nt assumed there Is a close analogy between en tho the operations of at nature un and the tho life of or man It Jt l IH is not exact for the tho rea reason on that everything c in this thit world is perl perishable and It has been universally uniV assumed b by theologians that the future state Is eternal and But Dut the without heln being exact exact- is la a n nry very ry suggestive 0 one analogy analog it is natural for fOI tho the human humm mind to draw inferences inference r front from what It t sees secs an and knows knovs If lit It observes things which con con S r S S I 5 I firm religious faith that faith necessarily becomes which seem to stronger whereas If IC It observes things s deny rt religious lI lous faith th that t faith must necessarily carn grow growAll row weaker All AU nature so far tar as we ar are arp aware goes go-es through processes es of or living and dying and anel living again The seasons themselves represent the stages of human lit except that the they are ore continuously renewed We 0 ha nave have spring tho the Infancy of or tho the year summer the adolescence fall the maturity of ot manhood and winter the decline an and death There Ther I is nothing more suggestive of death than the white pall of or snow concealing the thi earth from view while th the tb gaunt skeletons of ot te trees mark the mounds of If the departed but the earth again bursts the bondor bonds bond nf or sc seeming death an and breaks out Into glorious beauty It Il Is the rE resurrection of or the y year nr arising in- in from rein her temporary grave grav There are arc immense tracts on the tho earths earth's surface arid parched d desolate producing no useful use thing thinK and so BO far as fiS an any apparent purpose e can cnn bo bp achieved Wo we n know that they have o been ft fertile and productive e and perhaps th the tho abode of oC humanity but conditions have ha transformed them Into the tho most inhospitable d deserts h They ar are natures nature's dead territories but bul they can be awakened awakened awak awak- ened ned to life liCe h by Y tho the re restoration of oC those conditions of ot which they ha have havo been deprived man many c centuries a ago o. o and their r restoration luring during the past three thre or four centuries cen con tunes q has boon been Jn a common occurrence Desolate tracts have hae in ninny many instances been made to blo blossom som like hike the rosc rose This I is th the tho work of man In combination with of oC the almost universal nature but it Is no less suggestive process of or bringing the dead back to life Man nn reasons at times timE's unconsciously ly by analogy and nature is js his chief guide lIe He ma may accept faith without r reason many reason many do hut but but h ho hI can not object to having his faith sustained by what to him are arc rn reasonable proofs When hen he beholds In all nature seeming death Ileath and restoration restoration restoration restora restora- tion to life a process constantly going on on it must Inevitably in inevitably in- in g t the theme same me process In the future He lie I knows of of oC no oilier othor way of rea reasoning save sae that which comes through h hi his own perceptions anti and in taking a area rea reasonable view of oC a n. hereafter he- he must be guided by bytho tho those p perceptions Th They Thoy y sug suggest st a resurrection and a n future state t Everything thing in nature suggests gP ts it H. Even th the perl perishable earth can not really 11 die Matter Matr may take lake m myriad I shapes but it can cm not be destroyed If this earth arth were pounded to pieces nieces tomorrow b by some seine tr tremendous men catastrophe tho matter which composes it would find finda a lodgment elsewhere c. c and would in tho the course of time become another world or part of oC u a world worM This or of itself for a n future life liCe Paul say say- i 1 con con con- Is a n mighty argument corning the Uw resurrection of oC tho the dead It Il Is In sown a n natural natura l lI that I Is about all an spiritual bed body an and body it Is Js raised a I that is Ig known for tho ho finite mind of ot man can not penetrate pene pene- rate th the tho Infinite |