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had won, “Shall we meet again?” His answer is full of significance and beau tiful pathos: “Shall we meet again?— I asked that question of the hills, that seem eternal; of the streams, which flow on forever; of the stars, in whose azure fields my raised spirit roamed in glory; these are all dumb, but as' I look into your eyes, I feel th a t there must be something in your love which shall never perish; we shall meet again.” The young hero’s answer, so exalted and noble, represents the best of Greek thought and philosophy and hopes and affection, and yet his great est certainty was nothing beyond a pathetic and stupendous guess. For the great question as to a future life we want a definite and fixed answer, but it cannot be given by the streams, or the mountains, or the winds, or the sea, or the stars, or the thunders, or the lightning. All of these are dumb and deaf to the great deeper appeals of the human heart as to, what shall be hereafter. How different it is with the Word of God, and with those who have an abid ing faith in its wondrous teachings. Death comes to these as to others; and yet, there is a vast difference between their death and the death which others die. Those who die trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour and Redeemer, die in the Lord and their state is a state of blessedness, and their works do follow them. As we stand looking out upon the other shore, the supreme m atter with us for this life, as for the next, is our relation to Christ. Dying in Him, men go hence, as going to their homes, and sweep through the gates of the New Jerusalem, washed in the blood of the Lamb.—-Dr, Frost in his last illness. Ppl Mk Ms? SEE OUR 2c ADV . O N PAGE 401
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HE end cometh—and then what? This has been the . one pressing question of all nations, through all the cen turies. “If a man die, shall he live again?” It is the universal question of the hu
man heart; it has stood as the one in terrogation point of all ages, but has found its answer—-an answer of satis faction and of uplifting power. But the answer to this ever-recurring ques tion does not come from nature, for nature, with all her wonders, has no voice concerning the future, or con cerning our dead. Scientific research with all its vast and masterful achieve ments in man’s behalf, can do nothing for us in this sphere. It may search among the stars and be at home among these far away distances and glories— but nothing beyond. The answer was not wrought out by the intellect with its mighty reach of invention and dis covery; the answer did not come from the heart with all its longing and yearn ing for the future; nature and intellect and heart— these all may demand an answer, even venture to give an answer for what shall be hereafter, but this is not all sufficient; in themselves and by their very character they give presump tion for the future, bujt even their strongest presumption is not authority. And with these alone as our guide, we are as yet left helpless and in the dark. God’s .Word is the only authoritative voice: “Life and immortality are brought to light in the gospel.” The young hero in the Greek drama, who was going to execution, was asked by th e Greek maiden, whose affection he
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