SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY SUSTAIN RELIGION 193 



The only rational scientific theory that satisfies 

 my mind is to regard the suns as self-luminous, 

 perfected worlds, the visible abode of deity, and the 

 future home of the soul. This hypothesis accords 

 with every recently established fact in science, nature 

 and revelation. It fits man's hopes and aspirations, 

 his aesthetic nature, his psychic powers and reli- 

 gious concept which have followed him through all 

 the vicissitudes of his history. 



The question often arises : As justice reigns in the 

 moral world, as equilibrium reigns in the physical 

 world, and the destiny of the soul is the result of 

 its aptitudes and its aspirations, are only those 

 souls alone that truly live and unfold their faculties 

 and aspire to knowledge and truth destined to a 

 conscious immortality ? Many souls pass their lives 

 here in mental sleep, intellectual stupor, and spirit- 

 ual paralysis. Will they receive the gift of eternal 

 life? Many great scientists think they will not. 

 And all who neglect their mental and moral devel- 

 opment seal their own fate and will have no future 

 existence. This is a distressing view held and cham- 

 pioned by some of the able minds of modern times. 

 But I do not agree with them, for I believe every 

 soul is a spiritual atom of deity and, however ignor- 

 ant and depraved, may become wise and good, and 

 enjoy the beatitudes of an immortal existence. 



