far as to say that the results of modern scientific
research, when fairly viewed, are favourable to the reception of the
belief in immortality. A great modern physicist says: "The death of
the body does not convey any assurance of the soul's death. Every
physical analogy is against such a superficial notion in nature. We
never see things beginning or coming to an end. Change is what we see,
not origin or termination. Death is a change, indeed; a sort of
emigration, a wrenching away from the old familiar scenes, a solemn,
portentous fact. But it is not annihilation."

Dangers have seemed to threaten the doctrine of personal immortality
from the standpoint of the physiologist and the evolutionist; but these
dangers have not proved fatal. The physiologist has demonstrated the
close connection between the brain and the soul. It was an easy,
though improper, conclusion to assert that "the brain secretes thought
as the liver secretes bile." But the psychologist speedily pointed out
that the physiologist had gone beyond his province. He had proved only
that thought is a function of the brain. Functions may be productive
or transmissive. Light as a function of the electric circuit
represents a _productive_ function; music as a function of the organ
illustrates a _transmissive_ function. The music is not _in_ the organ
but in the organist. The organ transmits it. So, the brain is but the
organ of the soul.

The evolutionist has made men think in immensities and has given prime
importance to the idea of development. But a creature like man who is
alleged to be the product of ages of development is surely not going to
be extinguished at the tomb. Darwin himself wrote: "It is an
intolerable thought that men and all other sentient beings are doomed
to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress."

What candles, then, does Science light up for us?

1.--The conservation of energy and the indestructibility of matter
imply that the natural forces of the world are not annihilated, however
much they may be transformed. May we not hope that the peculiar form
of force known as personality, the highest force in the world, will not
be destroyed by the experience of death?

2.--Unfit organisms perish; fit survive. Many beliefs which once
formed part of the spiritual life of man have perished in the lapse of
time, but no belief has shown greater vitality and power to resist the
disintegrating influences