of changing environment than belief in the
soul's immortality.

If this belief has survived when quickened by the most awful imaginable
strain of the Great War may we not conclude that it is one of those
beliefs fit to live, one of those beliefs which the Creator desires to
live and grow?

3.--Whenever we find a faculty, we discover in environment something to
which this faculty corresponds. Progress is possible only by the
constant adaptation of faculty to environment. This is true of the
animal world. Is it not also true of man? In man are found faculties
peculiar to himself. There is a longing for immortality, an expanding
conviction of it. Does this internal condition correspond to reality?
Yes, else delusion falls on man alone. For, as a distinguished
scientist (Sir J. Burdon Sanderson) has said, "there is no known
instance of the development of a capacity without the existence of a
corresponding satisfaction."

4.--If there is one increasing purpose through the ages, if there is
development from lower to higher, from simple to complex, it is
impossible to bound our vision with the grave. If personality has been
attained, it is incredible that the gain of painful ages will be thrown
away. "_Now_ are we the Sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what
we shall be." The "forward-looking" habit has not been acquired for
naught.

So far is Science from giving demonstrative evidence against
immortality that it actually presents some considerations in its
favour. The reasonableness and the beneficence of creation protest
against the extinction of men by death.

WHAT CHRIST SAYS.

The candle-lights of history, philosophy and science cast a cumulative
radiance upon the problem of life after death. They show that it is
harder not to believe than to believe in immortality. But we need the
light of the Sun. We need the demonstration of the power of an endless
life. This we have in the Risen Christ. Christ brought into perfect
light those truths about God and man, of which mankind had dim
intuitions. By His Resurrection Christ abolished death (i.e., deprived
it of force and power) and brought life and immortality to light (i.e.,
gives certainty, richness and power to the hope of immortal life).

1.--Christ has given _certainty_ to the instinctive longing for
immortality. For the shadow, He has given substance; for dimness,
light; for hope, assurance. Although this hope has been virtually
univers