Show LIFE UfE AFTER DEATH I UPHELD BY YOUNG Immortality as a Fundamental Principle Advocated by Local Divine HE SEES JUDGMENT BAR AR Numerous Tracts Tract's ruc of Faith Shots Sho 10 ii I in iii il Doctrine of a n LI 11 Life f. f To h A 4 large congregation l listened to tu the lie fc Rev Benjamin Youngs Young's discourse on Immortality ns as a n J Fundamental Principle Principle Prin Prin- ciple at the First Methodist church Sunday Sunda morning Mr Ir Young spoke of or the thc universality of oC tho ho belief belef In Ina Ina ina a life lito after death and also called caled at attention attention at- at to evidences of the truthfulness truthful truthful- ness nes of af that lint belief The sermon selmon tel fol lows ions In purl pmt For Far we know that lint If Ir out our earthly house of or this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of oC God a house not mud made with hands eternal in the h heavens heavens It 1 II Corinthians 5 C. C 1 1 In a western city some years ago ngo agoan agoan i ian an old and lonel lonely man maR kle killed himself Before taking the poison polson which ended his life lre he sat At down and wrote out what he called caled his philosophy of or life He lie ended with this expression expresion I believe belleve be be- lieve death is an eternal sleep He lie had hud plenty to live e 1 on but some ad- ad verses which had como come to him the bitterness of ot some of the struggles les In I which he had become involved had broken his heart In his statement this man said aid that this end was the natural natural nat nat- nat ural outcome of at his faith raith The cs cast case attracted much attention because of aC the tIme dispassionate which theman the theman theman man ha had written a few moments before before before be be- fore he ho died lIed His philosophy was Wa however tal faNe false o and his action acton wrong Another Side of ItA itA I It the lie A different philosophy pervades thought of fr if tho the man who wrote m my text Ii In fact act It I underpins his religious religious- structure It I breathes out aut in all al his writings wrings Struggle comes cares into life tre Most men know something about burdens burdens bur bur- dens but some seem em to have more than their share of or that which Is harsh The apostle fays says That these things work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of af glory Effort did count for Cor something The attitude of one on toward the issue of or life was Im mi- 10 His Ills philosophy is interwoven o ven en with wih a helpful and a R robust op op- op- op Ho lie hu had faith In God and in inthe inthe inthe the future Ills Ils doctrine of immortality Immortal Immortal- ty helped him In Il the struggles les of nf this present He le would bring the thc future or 01 the he life Ife- Ife beyond tho the grave lavo Into his hlf rational explanation of oC things I belen believe be be- len lieve it might to to be he brought Into Inlo our aur philosophy more than hart It Il Is I do not nt mean that we should be complacent before some great Cu question ston or lem hem I mean that that we ber belto to this life Ith the other or further life In our effort to explain ox- ox plain some Home things things John Jahn FIske In his last book said al' that Immortal Immortality was wr ono one of or tho the differential dif dir attributes tes of the tho race That was a gr great nt statement from an em eminent emi 1 nent scientist In this is found some nt of the elements of our pre Men possess posses the Instinct which causes thern thel to believe in definite existence beyond the grave There arc are conditions In life We e believe belee that law operates In Inthe the universe It I dO does H not seem eem Eem to operate to Ultimate en ends s often In this life Right and wrong at tm times times- l somewhat mixed Death Is on nn I the trail trl of or broken la law la labut but In Ull this thin life lre results do 10 not hot al a always catch up with the sin or with wih the transgressor Thero There Is also suffering in the worl world Some Somo have more moro than ther share Tho The wicked som sometimes nourish flourish Yet et I said sid law operates Jn In the world and we behave belee believe be be- have lieve le e that J Justice is on the throne of the universe e. e This being our faith It I Is natural to hold that somewhere we shall thal como come to a n place of ton ion tion The criminal who lio has escaped will 1 some time b be brought to the lie bar bal The Injustice and the uneven condi condi- conditions conditions tons In environment and the burdens which men carr carry force torce us ts to to this belief beBer In tho the future All Al lL Ha c lu c Faith h In lit human hUlun belief belef there are aro mel J ous aus traces of af this faith In the life b beyond bo- bo yond ond H It I I Its It seen In lii the burial customs of or the Greenlander It I Is suggested by the thc stran strange e methods the Indian has ha of ot handling his hil dea dead The African In Inthe Inthe inthe the shadow of ot the dark forest the Persian Persian Persian Per Per- sian In his fire fre worship the I In his mysticism and the tho habits of oC the stoical Chinese all al testify to the prevalence of this belief belef In Immortal immortal- I ity Socrates In the tha face taco of or death calmly discourses 8 upon It Plato In an argument of ot some strength finds a u place for It I In his system Addison makes his hiM Cato speak peak of or It It Homer l makes Achilles express It tt It Our own Longfellow says that In even savage bosoms bosoms' there are longings after It It It I With lh the wall wail wal or of tho lie savage age 8 and the hl highest het which fall fail tal from the lips of ot the tho modem modern modern mod mod- em ern orator Investigators have ho e said that lint all al men niemi worship that there ar arno are areno areno no men mn without some conceptions pf Qt t tho the God 01 or of ot gods Wherever cr vye we e find men with wih upturned faces gazing Into the heavens there here we find them po possessed e d with the In Instinct reaching out after that life In the future This Is IN tho the meaning of or the burial form QC of all al tho the a ages eH It I Is further suggested tell by the tie Capacities capacities ca ca- of or men Emerson and Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakes Shakes- peare have given us noble tributes to tho the Inherent dl dignity of oC man Nothing Oner fluter has haa ha been written of ar the splendor and the power power of man than that which these literary masters master have havo written Man is tho the acme of or Cato creation 1 Ho lie 10 M Ia the ma masterpiece of or creative effort efort Is s It reasonable to tu believe that such splendid powers pwen are to be w wasted sted la Is It not more reasonable to think t that nat at out yonder In the distance such uch powers powers pow pow- cr ers will wm be Le utilized There Is no craI pl pile In all ul th the he universe rc Nature knows no waste Science Hut Not ot ut Deny But nut the apostle is very Vel positive about the matter mater Hl Ills truth ruth minds finds answer answer answer an an- In Sit the souls buls of ar men Ho Ito 10 was sas nt a 1 scholar t of or rare ability He lie had hod le erI- erI eru eru- dlton and culture The world tod today would call him a 0 scientist Ho He says nays We Ve know that If Ir tho ho earthly house houle of or this tabernacle were wele dissolved wo we Q have u a 1 building of or God That W was I based bad upon a 0 rational platform Back Duck Backof Duckor of or it I was wai thu perfect life Itu of ot Christ Thero There wa wan WU doctrine Ter There was the resurrection supported by In Indubitable indubitable In- In dubitable evidences e s There was the transformation which had hod como conic Into his own 1 life fe On such Buch a 0 ground does doe he make mako his doctrine to r rest real t Science I does not contradict It I b but l rather I leans nl i f- f I. I toward It H Nature sings this truth Revelation declares it It It I means much mud for or the burdened and the tho hOI I HS I It I means hope whore where there H is darkness It J re means lut light and good goud cheer In the tho storm It I means an uplift for tor the broken hearted May such uch a 0 hope resting Juch a foundation quicken quick quick- n en and t U ln and uplift u us us I |