Sermon Preached in Union Church on Sunday, September 9,)
By the Rey. E.
F. Horst-Smith "Why should it God should raise the 4 thing incredible with you that dead?
Acts 26 verse In the early part of June there begun in the London "Daily Nes and Westminster Gazette" a sign under the general heading of] "Where are the Dead?" The question was propounded by a corres-notd scentist and physician, who} bud expressed the opinion that mmun's life ends with physical dexin. As the discussion developed it. did not confine itself to the original question, "Where are the dead?" The subject matter would have been covered better by some such title "Is there a future life?" or "Do the dead survive?"
The correspondence that ensued afford? & striking proof of the in tessest ut the ordinary mun question of a future life. The editor ald that he was from the first overwhelmed with letters from people in all walks of life and representing every possible variety of opinion, Dut in most cases going out of their way to explain that they sere just average people, ''men in the: street" as the expression goes.
Apart from the great mass of correspondence which the Editor lures he received, he invited twenty-three well-known public men to write special articles on the suhject. These writers included mit ters of religion of many differ: communions, scientists, authors, Journalists and other public men of ade of religious belief and unbelief.
In the final result it wus found that of the chosen writers, three were either unconvinced oF else disbelieved in future life, while the remaining twenty. did believe that the dead survived, That was a very interesting, result and one quite different from what would have been obtained from such a set of writers a generation ago.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.