Religion and Life Eternal

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 17, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 49.

Religion and Life Eternal

There are said to be 2,000 Presbyterian churches in America without pastors. In Illinois there are 1,700 abandoned churches, 1,000 in Missouri, and about the same in Iowa and Kansas. From this Elbert Hubbard concludes: "A religion that interests itself largely in man's condition after death, has been outlived and is now outworn."

More's the pity. There is a possibility of a life eternal before every man after death. It is certainly proper that man should give it its due weight. If attained it means righteous character; and righteous character means right living here—doing duty to God and man. The man who takes the right view of eternity, is the man who other things being equal is the most useful man here.