Spiritual Realities.
And their words seemed to
them as idle tales and they be
lieved them not. St. Luke, xxiv.
11.
It is a very difficult thing for
most men to grasp spiritual reali
ties. We touch and taste and
hear and see the material. That
is the thing which constantly
forces itself on our physical sense
and it has been very hard for
men to grasp the conception of a
life in which these bodies have
part.
From the outset Christian
teachers opposed the physical and
material conception of life here
and hereafter. If these bodies
were corrupted and destroyed in
the grave how could they be
raised to life? . You remember
St. Paul's answer in that famous
fifteenth chapter of First Corin
thians which we read over the
bodies of our dear ones when we
consign them to the grave. The
corruption and decay of these
bodies shall no otherwise affect
the seeds which you plant in the
earth.
The real thing is the idea, the
thought, the spirit. The thing
on which you can lay your hands,
the thing which you can define
with mathematical precision, the
thing which you can photograph,
is but the passing expression.
This seems like an idle tale to
men who cannot free themselves
from the hampering materialism
of their surroundings. Such men
scorcfully toss aside the realities
as unreal, because they are not
susceptible of that proof of the
senses which they are wont to
apply in their dealings with ma
terial expressions. They have
developed those higher powers of
their nature which respond to
the spiritual, somewhat in the
same way in which the senses re
spond to the material.
What a glory belief' in the res
urcction gives to life! The
tasks which seem to me so irk
some and sometimes so needless
are a preperation for a wo.k that
my Father has prepared for me
in another mansion of His great
house, just as the school child's
tasks are the preperation for the
greater and broader work of ma
turer life when he shall be fit to
share his father's post and his
father's labor! The pains and
sorrows which befall us here and
often seem so. unjust, taking the
joy out of our lives, are like the
pains aud ills of a child which
make his life unhappy for a day
that they may cure him of some
sickness, remedy some defect in
his organism or strengthen the
little spirit within, making it
braver and truer and purer!
Our very partings loose their un-
uterable sadness and tend in their
turn to make life more glorious
when it becomes clear to us that
God has taken those we love to
put them in a place which he
has prepared; that they are only
over the threshhold in the next
room, busy and happy in a life
full of interest and joyl
To dwell on thoughts like these
to have the seal of faith set upon
the hopes and the yearnings of
our nature, to be told that those
yearnings and those aspirations
were not given us by God in
vain, but that they might in due
time find their realization this
faith ennobles the very source of
our being. It has been the proud
conception of man, as expressed
for example, in the old Hebrew
Scriptures, growing stronger the
more men progressed in intelli
gence and control over them
selves and the universe about
them, that we are different from
the rest of creation. We are the
crown of creation to which all
the rest leads up. This thought
takes on a new and nobler charac
ter as a result of that doctrine of
immortal life which Jesus broght
to men. John P. Peters, St.
Michael's Church, New York.
Commissioner's Sale, of Land
Pursuant to an order of the Supe
rior Court of Forsyth County at Sep
tember Term, 1906, in the action enti
tled, E. B. Jones, Executor of T. T.
Best v. T. H. Tise, administrator of C.
H. Tise, T. H. Tise, guardian of Eva
M. Tise and Robert W. Tise and Clem
entina Tise and T. H. Tise, I shall ex
pose at public auction for cash, on
Saturday, the 3rd day of November
1906, at 12:40 o'clock, P. H., at the
court house door in Forsyth County,
Winston, N. C, the following de
scribed property, to-wit:
Lying near Winston in Old Town
Township, Forsyth County, N. C,
and known and designated on plat
of The Lake Best Property as Lots
Nos. 42, 53, 58. 75, 105, 106, 116 and 117,
which plat is duly recorded in the of
fice of the register of deeds of Forsyth
County in book 38 of deeds at page 15,
and for fuller description see said re
corded plat.
This the 28th day of September,
1906.
LINDSAY PATTERSON,
Commissioner.
Commissioner's Sale of Land
Pursuant to an order of the Supe
rior Court of Forsyth County, . at
September Term, 1906, in the action
entitled E. B. Jones, Executor of T.
T. Best v. C. H. Williamson, I shall
expose at public auction for cash, on
Saturday, the 3rd day of November,
1906, at 12 o'clock, M., at the court
house door in Forsyth County, Wins
ton, N. C, the following described
I) roper ty to-wit:
Lying near Winston in Old Town
Township, Forsyth County,N. C, and
known and designated on the plat of
The Lake Best Property, as Lot No.
.109, which plat is duly recorded in
office of the register of deeds of For
syth County in book 38 of deeds, page
15, and for fuller description see said
recorded plat.
This the 28th day of September,
1906.
LINDSAY PATTERSON,
Commissoner.
Commissioner's Sale of Land
Pursuant to an order of the Supe
rior Court of Forsyth County at Sep
tember Term, 1906, in the action enti
tled E. B. Jones, Executor of T. T.' -Best
v. W. E. Franklin, I shall expose
at public auction for cash on Saturday
the 3rd day of November, 1906, at 12:20
o'clock, P. M., at the court house door
in Forayth County, Winston, N. C,
the following described property to
wit: Lying near Winston in Old Town
Township, Forsyth County, N. C,
and known and designated on the
plat of The Lake Best Property as
Lots Nos. 34 and 36, which plat is du
ly recorded in the office of the regis
ter of deeds of Forsyth County, in
book 38 of deeds, at page 15, and for
fuller description see said recorded
plat.
This the 28th day of September,
1906.
. LINDSAY PATTERSON,
Commissioner.