Article August 27, 1904 Issue

Eternal Life

WILLIS F. GROSS.

The unceasing cry of the ages has been, "What shall I do to inherit eternal life?" The earnest longing of the human heart is revealed in the question, and we see therein expressed the conviction that there is eternal life, a desire to possess it, and the recognition that the present sense of life is not eternal.

Human theories, based upon the mortal and material conception of life and being, have no answer to the question. That death is inevitable is the dictum of physical science and of philosophy. All material knowledge—that which is the result of present-day investigation, reason, and experiment, as well as that which bears the stamp of time—points to the dissolution of man and the end of all things. The accumulated wisdom of this world is no nearer the solution of the problem, no better prepared to answer the all-absorbing question to-day than it was thousands of years ago. In this respect, at least, it has made no progress whatever.

Limitation and death appear on every hand. Human knowledge points out no way of escape, and mortals are taught to be reconciled to that which is believed to be inevitable. But man is not reconciled; he desires to live. There is that within him which rebels against the thought that he was created to die; that his mission is fulfilled when he finds a resting-place in the grave. Something seems to say to him that in this world he scarcely begins to live, and there comes the conviction that some day, some where, he will live the life that knows no death.

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