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been extinct. "It is well," the Jungfrau remarks. 

 "Let us back again to sleep." 



And is this then the sum of human life and en- 

 deavor? Is it without any further significance, 

 as the materialistic evolutionist teaches? Glaciers 

 and snow, and then the brief period of man, and 

 glaciers and snow again, eternal glaciers and 

 snow! Or rather shall the earth, as many hold, 

 and as the Scripture tells us, be wrapped about in 

 melting and consuming fires, as when coming out 

 of the great void of space some blazing cosmic 

 bodies should smite it in a mighty impact and 

 flame should be the end of all. And can we hope 

 and live for nothing more? 



Materialism was summed up, in its true mean- 

 ing and all its social consequences, centuries ago in 

 the Book of Wisdom. There we read the tale of 

 Babylon; of Jerusalem in the day of Christ; of 

 London and Petrograd; of Paris, Berlin or of 

 New York, wherever and how far soever ma- 

 terialism has produced its fruits: 



For they have said, reasoning within themselves, but not 

 rightly: The time of our life is short and tedious, and at the 

 end of a man there is no remedy, and no man hath been known 

 to return from hell: 



For we are born out of nothing, and after this we shall be 

 as if we had not been: for the breath in our nostrils is smoke: 

 and speech a spark to move our heart, 



Which being put out, our body shall be ashes, and our spirit 

 thall be poured abroad as soft air, and our life shall pass 

 away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, 



