EDITORIAL 
Immortality? 
The proverbial thoughtlessness of 
humanity in the rush and whirl of its 
own selfish interests occasionally re- 
ceives startling corroboration. It is the 
ordinary events of life and death that 
are the most miraculous but they fre- 
quently go unnoticed and unthought 
of by most human beings. 
Could there be anything more aston- 
ishing than the fact that here is a good 
boy who died and no one mourned his 
death ? His outlook on life was as 
bright, hopeful and happy as that of 
any one who has ever lived, but could 
there be anything sadder than to think 
his lively, healthy body decayed and 
has so passed on to another stage of 
existence, thus fulfilling the mortality 
of earthly bodies so excellently de- 
scribed by Bryant : 
‘'Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim 
Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, 
And, lost each human trace, surrendering up 
Thine individual being, shalt thou go 
To mix for ever with the elements. 
To be a brother to the insensible rock 
And to the sluggish clod, which the rude 
swain 
Turns with his share, and treads upon.” 
But the perishing of that beautiful 
body that must be scattered far and 
wide in dust among the elements is not 
the saddest part, but rather the fact that 
no one among all his acquaintance 
mourned his death. It is true, as Bryant 
has said, that the gay laughed and “the 
solemn brood of care plod on,” and each 
one as before will chase his favorite 
phantom. Such is the sad thoughtless- 
ness of mankind. 
Those of us who like to philosophize 
on the great problems of life and death 
have arrived at the conclusion that at 
least in this case there is fair psycho- 
logical and physical proof that he not 
only left his earthly body but his young 
mentality and entered a realm which 
we in faith believe, yes, more than that, 
have positive knowledge, know. “Eye 
hath not seen . . . neither have entered 
into the heart of man,” in the days of 
that little boy’s mental activity, “the 
things which God hath prepared” for 
him to be and to accomplish. 
He went out into the Great Unknown 
and spirit world as remote as that 
which he left, traveling on. on gradu- 
ally, gradually into the great unknown 
distance of time, space and mental am- 
bitions and desires. There in that re- 
mote realm probably he frequently 
looks back upon that early earthly ex- 
istence and wonders what after all is 
THIS BOY DISAPPEARED FROM EARTH WITH 
NO HOPE OF IMMORTALITY, AND NO 
ONE MOURNED HIS LOSS. EVEN 
HE DID NOT REALIZE IT! 
