65 pan, OF at shortest 10 Saturn Mare 3-8 14 Now moon ©, 2.21 "Total eclipse of sity, Visible 8 prartialoneat Sti, wenvofeclipse y, 16 pan, popular contributors tothe The" Americen. "New Republi Provided that there is affection in a family, the father and mother confirm when they are old the mircle they performed when they. were young. Then they loved and gave their children life; now they die, and make that gift absolute by''taking away the fear of death from their children; for after one has watched a dying person with the clairvoyant eye of affection the idea of death as a triumph of decay pusses for ever, One perceives that he is not ceasing to exist but passing into another universe.
The transition may be excrucia~ tingly painful; quite possibly he takes with him no memory of this life; and there is no reason to suppose that the other universe ix more careful of its inhabitants than this. But ft is at any rate a universe of greater beauty than this. Of that one is made aware by an intuition which tells us constantly throughout life that there are certain actions we perform and emotions we feel which, though they may not be me juncus or repellent, and may inced be pleasurable and harmless, are limited to this universe.
Qne knows therefore that just far ax such actions and emotions predominate in one's life one will perish with this A drunkard; a man who whole life in_play ike tennis or chess; a chanical sexual acts physical or spiritual consequence; 'a county hostess' who spends her whole life in trivial social activi ties—all these die when they dic But there ave other actions and emotions of greater nobility and ut thr xo far ae such actions and emotions predominate in one's life one does not die in death. Any one who loves any one else; any tone who creates good art or sound thought; any one who achieves courage and generosity; any one who docs any work well; what ar these do happens not only in this life which passes bat in ai other life which continues.
These certainties of mine cannot proved by any logical process; not find that in the least ing, for it ix not necessary that they' should be. Tam sure cough of them. The only use of riy logical proof would he to cone vince other people of their reality, and that I do not want to do; for Tam certain that everybody has the same chance of receiving these intuitions that have. Indeed, were T the only person or one of a restricted number of persons, who could receive them, then this would be such an just cosmos that I would lose in it and seck annihilatirade on foreigners and he has a sympathetic audience. Though he be influenced by foreign doctrines of demons while others come with the Word of God he will be listened to if he shows zeal for his own country and a wi a struggle to rid foreign power. He believes what, he says anil feels a Gz: responsibility for his country's woul.
Few foreigners have any need to make an apology for their presence China. The whole foreign propaganda has been for good, and be for good. We are here we ard out sons and our daughters, forever, The world is now too small to permit of hermit nations. But we are to remain for the present we must conduct ourselves in a spirit of forbearance and kindly appreciation of the Chinese standpoint realizing that. we are here on sufferance. Thus it will be easier for both Chinese, and foreigners to pass through the present crisis.
But certain forms Christianity: 448 had to take to satisfy the needs of the man of that are unsuited Our of apse G2, oot to the man of this age. There is,|15 Moon in perigee, 7.5.4.5. for instance, the doctrine of the|16 Venn" in Vion with moon, tion by confining myself to the actions and emotions which perish Virgin Birth, The ordinary pres].,% thin, Yeas 0.1 with this world. Since this is so, Christian man was not accustomed $Y I tos to the idea of moral power unsup-I should be afraid to convince any-ported by force. It would hav body else of the reality of my Treen impossible to convince him on wth tuitions, for og the human animal that aman was divine simply be-/2 Full men O, is above all things indolent, his behaviour was supremely [30 Moon in apogee, would probably accept my proof as beautiful, Therefore Christ had to Phases of the Moon fan assurance that life has a mean-be recommended to him by the ing and would refrain from secking ascription of a miraculous origi Day. Hour. for his own revelation which alone Last quarter pan. can give him that. assurance in a Now that we have had Christ's gis Fr form suited to the individual needs fore us this is quite Now wood Fcelesiastics who talk about the) Virgin Birth are as absurd as per-mara ape 2 sons would be who, having been heighten my consciousness of these visited by the finest_ man he world, stopped reposting his wis-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.