NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
MANCHESTER, MASS., FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1909. 
AFTER DEATH, WHAT? 
Can We Escape the Resurrection? 
Rev. Theodore L. Frost delivered a 
very interesting sermon at the Baptist 
church, Manchester, Sunday evening on 
the above topic. Mr. Frost took for his 
text John 5:28, 29, ‘‘Marvel not at this: 
for the hour cometh, in which all that 
are in the tombs shall hear his voice, 
(29) and shall come forth; they that 
have done good, unto the resurrection 
of life; and they that have done evil, 
unto the resurrection of judgment.’’ 
Following are a few excerpts from the 
sermon: 
““ There are some people in this world 
today who hold to the doctrine that death 
ends all; no future life beyond the grave; 
no resurrection. “Those who desire to 
live evil lives still hold to that old doc- 
trine,— eat, drink, and be merry; for 
tomorrow we die.’ ‘They care nothing 
for the hereafter. Is this a safe doc- 
trine? no hereafter? Is it correct? Is 
it reasonable? Is it scripture? Can we 
escape the resurrection? 
“To answer this question, we will 
first take it from reason. Whena man 
dies he simply closes the first chapter of 
his life. Whenan animal dies that is 
the end of it. Animals have no char- 
acter. Animals and men are of two 
different orders of life. Animals cannot 
develop a beautiful character, but man 
can. First, to prove that there is a re- 
surrection from reason, there is the ar- 
gument from man’s destiny. We are 
all “conscious of imperfections in our 
lives. Wedon’t seem to be satished 
with this life and with the solution of our 
intellectual problems. 
**'The moral life is far from satisfac- 
tory. In spite of care mistakes have 
been made and the moral life has not 
reached its ideal. Is it reason or com- 
mon sense then to suppose that there 
will be no chance 
intellectual, moral or spiritual growth? 
Of course there’s a chance for develop- 
ment. To people of evil activity, this 
argument cannot apply. 
*“The next argument is the moral or 
ethical argument. Some don’t believe 
in future punishment. It is certain that 
a good many people who are evil are 
trampling upon the good people, and 
are not being punished for their sins. 
Some of the lowest men are not found 
in the penitentiaries. Some of them are 
looked upon as respectable, yet their 
hearts are as black as the blackest crim- 
inal’s. It seems reasonable to suppose 
in the hereafter for 
that they will receive their just desserts. 
God must demand that those who are 
not punished here must be punished in 
the hereatfer. 
‘“Then there is the historical argu- 
ment. You have heard how the Indians 
used to bury weapons and earthen ves- 
sels with their dead so that the departed 
one might use them when they reached 
the ‘Happy hunting ground.’ The 
Greeks used to place a coin in the 
mouth of the corpse to pay its way over 
the river Styx. We find these beliefs 
cropping out down through the ages 
among different people. “That means 
something. It shows there is something 
down deep in the human heart which 
points to a resurrection 
‘“Summing up our arguments from 
reason we find that God’s love for man 
and man’a destiny show there must be a 
chance for perfection in the hereafter. 
The moral argument shows that there 
must be a punishment for the evil. The 
historical argument shows us that there 
must be a resurrection. 
‘“'Then we have the argument from 
scripture, for we must have something 
to back up our arguments from reason. 
The 15th Chapter of I Corinthians states 
that the dead shall rise. Those united 
with Christ shall rise because Christ rose 
from the dead. Thatisa strong proof 
for the resurrection. If Christ had not 
risen from the dead then all our hopes 
would be in vain. ‘This resurrection of 
Jesus Christ rests upon a historical basis. 
It is as strong as it can be possibly. 
The righteous rise because they are unit- 
ed with Christ in the right, and the un- 
righteous because the Divine right de- 
mands their punishment. Death cannot 
blot out the souls of the wicked and can- 
not/stop their existence. The scripture 
passages concerning the resurrection 
are many and strong. ‘The resurrection 
rests upon God’s holy words. Men 
may avoid God here, they may shun 
duty, but friends, while you are avoiding 
God in this life there is another chapter, 
another sphere of existence. You must 
stand before the judgment bar of the 
Son of God, you must be made manifest 
before Jesus Christ. How are you go- 
ing to face God in eternity? You must 
meet him sometime and answer for the 
evil that youhave committed. We have 
all sinned, and there will be no chance, 
hope or satisfaction in trying to gain an 
entrance into the Kingdom but by our 
own works. Unless we have righteous- 
ness and cleave unto Christ, we cannot 
at last stand before the judgment bar free 
from condemnation,’’ 
RANDOM THOUGHTS. 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
No. XXXV. 
An eminent educator has said, “‘ there 
is no period so dangerous to a man or to 
a generation, as the period following a 
period of strong emotion;’’ a statement 
that has many illustrations, and that is 
brimful of suggestion. 
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The laborer may willingly remain at 
his task through the long, wearisome 
days, but it is permitted him now and 
then to lift his eyes to the west, to see if 
the sun is nearing the horizon, marking 
the time that will release him from _ his 
toil and bring him welcome rest. 
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Old Samuel Johnson had not the 
polish and table manners of Lord Ches- 
terfield, but he had something that Lord 
Chesterfield lacked; he had real nobility 
and solid worth; the virtues may not be 
as showy as the graces, but they are of 
more value; in a just balance, they weigh 
down the scale. 
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Some books become outgrown, and 
outdated, and are left behind on the 
shore of time like driftwood; others im- 
prove in flavor and quality with age; all 
depends on whether they appeal to that 
which is transient and individual, or to 
that which is lasting and universal. To 
the former class belong the greater num- 
ber of modern works of fiction that crowd 
the windows of the booksellers; to the 
latter, such works as the Canterbury 
Tales, Hamlet, Pilgrim’s Progress and 
Paradise Lost. 
To all who care for mental cultivation, 
the advice may be given; read the best 
books, those that have been tested by 
time; become familiar with the great 
masters; enrich the mind with the treas- 
ures of English verse and prose; know 
something of Bacon, Milton, Jeremy 
Taylor, Browne, Irving, Franklin, Web- 
ster, Emerson, Lowell; study Tennyson, 
Jean Ingelow, Whittier; be content to 
be ignorant of many of the issues of the 
press of today. 
Bunyan’s ‘‘ Holy War,’’ abook much 
less read but only less remarkable than 
** Pilgrim’s Progress,’’ is antiquated in 
style, and its atmosphere is that of me- 
dizval sieges and armaments; but while 
the weapons and methods of the warfare 
against unrighteousness change from age 
to age, the warfare is the same; the city 
of Mansoul is still beleagured by the 
same enemies, sometimes under different 
names, and wearing: different devices, 
