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Show THERE IS A ,LIFE AFTER THIS. Personally I 'cannot see how Hie could be worth living io one who failed to credit the soul's Immortality. There' Is nothing now In Mr. Edison's Edi-son's throrles. They aro the old materialistic ma-terialistic theories re-vamped, but leally not amplified. They ffdve long' since b'en exploded and arc no longer lon-ger used as a working hypothesis by the best physical scientist of the day. Nobody knows what matter Is Jn the last annylsls'. Science has1 co'mo to admit Its mystery. Where thertf Is mystery there Is something which xfcf 'cannot underhand which we aro In-'capable In-'capable ot understanding. If there Is this mystery concerning mnt'ter, why not a greater mystery coriccrhlgoul? .Mi1. Kdison, apparently, docs not admit ad-mit this mystery, although 'he quits acknowledges tho matter-mystery, yet Ms n'dvunced solution of It is not at nil n real solution. u ' Tho power to create Christianity as a-inlghty forco luy In tho Resurrection It'dld not He In the Sermon on tho Mount or lu the Golden Utile. All that there was in them, or nearly all, the world had had, already. Mnny tench-era tench-era had advanced tho truths which they contain Confucius nnd, nnd Moses Mo-ses hnd, and others had. The new.the grent things which Christianity brought to tho world were Love and tho 'Gospel of tho Resurrection. Humanity Hu-manity for all ages had been seeking this great comfort, and It was this fnct, or this alleged tact, which created cre-ated Christendom. Immortality! There Is a grent reasonable rea-sonable presumption to start with, and that any man can Btnrt with. Mr. Edison's theories nro against all reasonable rea-sonable piesumptlon. When we come to scientific controversy on this matter, mat-ter, wo rind thnt all science rests upon up-on no more than reasonable presumptionupon presump-tionupon a postulate, to begin with. How did Newton psovo the theory of gravitation? Ho didn't see It everywhere, every-where, working throughout the unlver sal scheme; gravitation Is not visible. Something definite, concrete, observable observ-able occurred. As he was sitting underneath under-neath nn apple-tree nn apple tall. An hypothesis, born ot this apple's full, camo Into his mind Mint possibly might explain thut falling thing and all tailing tail-ing things. Then he proceeded to inquire how thnt hypothesis worked. And It did work, anil, by Its working well It Jus-tilled Jus-tilled Itself Let a man start with a reasonable theory of Christianity, of Christ's resurrection, res-urrection, nnd thou proceed to Inqulro how It works iu his own life, In mold, lug character, conscience nnd ninbi tlon. Let him see bow It works, and, If It works well, It 'justifies Usoir, as Newton's theory did, and Darwin's and the others. Right llev. David II. Greer, Protestant Episcopal Hlshop of New York, In March Columbian. |