But we know that is not the case. Death for us is not the end but the beginning—our birth into the eternal world which is man's heritage beyond the grave. This life looks very important to us now, but its sole importance is that it is our preparation for eternity, just as a child's school days are important only as a preparation for his future career. The world is our school for eternity, and Religion is our school work.
Not that we are to neglect. the other duties of this world. God has placed us here to lead a human life—to work for a living, to support our families. and so on. But these things are necessary only insofar as they enable us to live on and serve God. until it is His good pleasure to callus; When that time comes we must go, and all that will accompany us to the throne of God will be our good and bad deeds, for shrewds have no pockets.
To be sure, God does not demand the impossible, He does not oblige any man to live up a Religion he knows nothing about, but to live only according to his lights. But within that limitation we are bound to live up to our religious convictions, or some day atone for not doing, so. There is no way out of it. We stand or fall for eternity by the Judgment of God, who will judge every man according to his works. And it is Religion which determines those works for us.
The respectable world still retains Religion on its statute books. But there are other schools which are not so tolerant. There is the ultramodern school which has sensed the failure of Christianity. Creation has got beyond the control of the Creator, and He"has let fall the reigns of government from His wearied grasp! It is not so much that the world must be got away from God; but as a matter of fact the Creator was not well-advised to set up the present administration for His Religion. So now they must come to the rescue and provide some more workable system—something to restore man, Aryan man at least—to the place which is his by right!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.