DR. GRENFELL ON IMMORTALITY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1437, 11 May 1912, Page 9

DR. GRENFELL ON IMMORTALITY.

"BECAUSE I AM SURE OP IT." "To mo it is a sign of feebleness" says Dr. Wilfred Grcnfell, in an article on "Shall s Man Live Again?" in the New York- '■"Qutbok," "when a: preacher of our immortality searches through dusty tonics for the confirmation of a lifelong intuitive faith." Dr. Grenfell is fully, satisfied to believe in-immortality, "just, because, I am sure of it.":— "I believe that intuition brings nw into most direct »ml most reliable relationship with what is most vital and triio. Any man who, to my mind, is worth while worrying with believes in honour and love and truth. ... It is best to believe it. I was taught that it was true at i»v mother's knee, and there I learned of immortality.- I took m one with the other, and 1 mean to cling to both of them. I pray that the day may never come when 1 believe that tuis beautiful world, and this gift of life, are evidences that we arc oniy tho sport oi a devilish God, ivJio would leavo matter indestructible, but destroy tho noblest at. tribute of mankind." \ "There is something that will not take W from my brain," he says. Some call it the moral life, eorae tho ideal life, soma tho spirit or soul. I call, it 1. Among varijus interesting points, • in. Grenfell mentions the persistence of memorv through all tho altered forms ot the bo'dv; tho creative- power rf tho soul"HcV can a physical organ produce an idea .'-his belief in man's sonship to God; and his faith in tho resurrection of Christ, of which he says:— "Experience has convinced me that thus faith is too valuable an asset here to He. wantonly thrown away. After all, are not the reasons for doing so too often "osed by the will, and not by the intel. lect? It makes great demands on 1 fe, this faith in immortality as Christ loaches lt- Dr. Grenfell's position, however, is best rammed up in Wβ statement: '"of art is I have given ray lime to the study of mortality; I have accepted immortality as axiomatic. . • • More than once at eea, if I had waited to hem my reasoa into a corner before odepting a course, o action, I should not bo hero to tell tbo tale.