Article October 7, 1916 Issue

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with contributions from Henry Kingman, W. A. Cunningham Craig, Joseph Fort Newton

[Rev. Henry Kingman, D.D., in The Biblical World]

Our generation hungers for immortality not only because life is more wonderful than it has been, but because, as human life becomes increasingly intense and complicated, we need the reaction of a faith in immortality upon every day of living. In dull and sluggish times, when every man at evening sat in quiet at his own tent door, it may well have been easier than now to trust placidly in the righteousness of Jehovah as the God of all the earth. But in the feverish intellectual restlessness and social discontent of our day, always harassed by the insoluble problems of wrong and pain and inequality, always beset with the temptation to cynicism or frivolity or despair, we need, as almost never before, the steadying assurance of an infinite value and reach to human life, in which the resources of eternal love and righteousness shall have a chance to work out to completion what this brief chaotic strife of right with wrong can never bring to pass. Eternity was the scale on which Jesus worked out his earthly plan; and nothing but a like confidence in eternity gives one room to think after him his thoughts.

[Rev. W. A. Cunningham Craig, M.A., in The Church Family Newspaper]

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