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Show BELIEF IN THINGS UNSEEN. One of the indisputable facts of history which have come down to us is that Jesus Christ lived upon this earth and died a violent death by crucifixion. cruci-fixion. No one who has read any ancient history, sacred or profane, denies or attempts to deny the existence of fEe man. That He performed miracles is as well established by history as is the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4. 1770. I The denial of Jesus Christ is that He was the Son : of the Living God. Why modern thinkers should pick out this one point iu the life of Christ for attack at-tack it is hard to understand. The wonders He performed per-formed during tho years of His public life afford quite as much material for attack and denial because be-cause of their unscientific explanation a3 does the ! divinity of Christ as set down in the historical accounts ac-counts of His life. The explanation for this atti-tude atti-tude probably lies in the widespread prevalence of 'the spirit of materialism which permeates society in these latter days. Unbelief in things not seen or rationally explained is affected by some whose superficial su-perficial reasoning powers have been corrupted by reading half understanding the works of some c who have attempted to go back of the beginning of life on the- earth. Science agrees perfectly with the religious idea that there was a time when no life existed on this globe. Then life did exist. From where it came the greatest thinkers cannot explain beyond the fact that it came from God, tho originator of all life. There is a time in the lives of nearly all men when doubt assails and materialistic reason cannot explain the things which are not seen. Fortunate indeed is he who seeks information front those whose spiritual insight and mental attainments are such as to guarantee to the doubter an answer based on good hard sense and an understanding of the mental processes which brought the seeker t him for information. . A young man, assailed by doubt, once sought. i light from a man whom he counted as a loyal j friend a Catholic priest, to be frank and an- I nounced in the course of a long conversation touching touch-ing many topics, but all leading up to the climax; "I have become skeptical. I do not believe anything any-thing I cannot see and explain." No doubt the good man was shocked by the announcement an-nouncement of unbelief, but he only sought to impress im-press upon the young man the ridiculous position he had taken, and at the same time guide the inquiring in-quiring mind into channels free from the rocks and reefs on which he was threatening to annihilate himself. The priest told a story which pointed the way better than a learned statement possibly could have done: "A sheep, a cow and a goose are on. yonder hill. each eating grass," the story went. "Tell me now, if you can, why in the process of digestion the grass makes wool on the sheep, hair on the cow and feathers on the goose. You know this to bo a fact. Can you explain it ? No Then do not bo j. too sure things you cannot explain are incorrect." j ; ! |