The Archive · 1923

Matter and Life

We turn now from the telescope to the microscope, and we find that this world of ours is teeming with life. One of our most famous modern philosophers, Bergson, takes life as the solution of the riddle of the Universe. Life is seen in the most minute forms, and life is everywhere taking up inorganic matter and transforming it into wonderful and beautiful things. Life takes the dull dust of the earth and produces flowers and fruits with all their beauty, fragrance and usefulness. Life is a wonderful) and beneficial power, and it is found in multitudinous forms throughout this world of ours.

There must be a source of life, and that source is evidently a loving Heart.

In man life is seen at its highest and noblest. In him and in those around him we do indeed soe failure, disease and evil, but wei see that while life lasts the human body has in it a wonderful power of natural recovery; and moreover we find that for every evil a remedy is provided, that for every disease there is a medicine and a cure. At least the rapidly diminishing list of "incurable" diseases leads us to think that no ill is without its remedy, and that if man had not been hampered by. his own faults he would long since have found out all needful remedies. In the end this world will be completely good, God will dwell among men, mankind shall be saved, and God shall be "all in all."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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