30 INTERPRETATIONS OF NATURE. 
Independent of any philosophic negations, the logic 
of moral probabilities is that immortality awaits the 
human soul. 
““Tt must be so. Plato! thou reasonest well, 
Klse whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, 
This longing after immortality ? 
Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, 
Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul 
Back on herself and startles at destruction ? 
Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 
‘Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter 
And intimates eternity to man.” 
The address elicited an interesting discussion by the 
Revs. Van Gieson, Elmendorf and Loomis; Drs. War- 
ring and De Garmo, and was closed, as follows, 
BY REV. H. L. ZIEGENFUSS : 
Through the courtesy of our president I was allowed, 
two days ago, to become acquainted with the contents 
of the paper that has just now been read before you. If 
we differed more it might enhance the interest in this 
evening’s discussion, but that we agree so nearly is, to 
me at least, a cause for sincere congratulation. 
Itis very gratifying to note on all sides that, as stu- 
dious men delve down deeper into the depths of nature 
and become the better acquainted with nature’s laws, 
their conclusions are couched in terms taken from the 
psychological domain quite as much as in those taken 
from the vocabulary of the pure physicist. 
Some years ago Dr. Biichner wanted only matter and 
force for the creation of the universe, and of all that 
therein is. With that asa text he preached the gospel 
of materialism. It was an attractive gospel. It made 
things so clear that the uneducated could easily under- 
stand everything. Man had buta span of life, which 
began and ended here on earth. Death ends all. The 
