Show LIFE JFE AFTER DEATH except the grain fall in the earth and die it cannot bring forth fruit because the power of P PERHAPS rising from death is in man so go integral a part of his nature lie uses it familiarly without surprise never quite realizing its god quality from his dally daily deaths of 0 trouble and struggle from the death of 0 goals lie cannot reach the deaths of gladness gladne qs and love of hopes that bat dig die with nith each sunset he Is reclaimed a thousand times lie ile cannot really lie die for all the seeming deaths that dally daily attend him they fall into the ground find and die ile he rises raised by the power of life in blin and new hopes new works lie he brings forth to sot set this life ilfe power to eternal things is hard bard for him being within a material world of his own creation lie ile has lost the intensity of desire for two things N which aich kept that early group humbly apart and fed it with profound wisdom the desire of eternal love and a simple uncompromising will to see the truth ile he feels so strong a life power within him now that he is impelled to create its ills own lesser truth wondering then at his dissatisfaction sincere in rejoicing it is not so much belief as perception that ho be lacks a looking in the wrong direction with eyes dulled by dwelling on material objects when the brightest day comes for celebrating 4 s IL t AV tax 4 40 04 the risen spirit he goes to the churches in the flower beauty that surges into bloom for the feast and in the massed choral singing ing in of anthems surely he is sincere thus loving thus praising thus entering into the service which the priests and people hold with less keenness of sight h however for or the pure spiritual proving of the truth than those few were blest with nho long ago at the earliest easter after long sorrow and waiting saw the real re resurrection yet perceived the greater spiritual one thi through h it dut but lie he knows it is in the churches that he be will find the mystery of the new flower that Is to rise it is always there to be realized at each kneeling to be sown anew in each heart to give fostering care to brood over and bless the soil of the heart while waiting to tell over and over again at every time the questioning heart is lifted up to it that what nhat the mystery of life can do for the lesser grain it Is bound to do by an ever truer measure of the same law for the spiritual growth teaches great truth one can turn better after that realization iza tion to the full springtide and feel even gladder than nature knowing the touch of the eternal flower within wandering amid the old myths filled with their beauty and their deathless attachment to life one feels annys under the shadow of ended things thing upon the verge where all reality has gone down in darkness the lasting and perfect poetry of these myths lingers like gorgeous sunsets As the latest comer among them many way may class the great christian story of the resurrection it ts Is indeed a great myth a superlative myth in the real meaning of the word as a narrative founded on a remote event but the hingular tIn guiar lone one truth it symbolizes like a direct shaft of light separates it from the darkness of the old myths forever they taught the underworld where tile the shades moved in a halt half life or pale regret conscious of lost joy without hope A mournful idea of immortality that satisfied ft no heart beatt and from which that the g great r eat thinkers of that age reached out in vain for light that light appears in the great simple law except the grain fall in the earth and ile die it cannot bring forth fruit |