ice.
There he repeated the morning's sermon from the text, "The last enemy
that shall be destroyed is death." It was the fruit of all his ministry
to the bereaved, and of his penetrating, sympathetic insight into the
loneliness and devastation of death's inroads. As he brought the
Christian faith to bear upon the problem, he imparted by clarity of
thought and eloquence of words as well as by accent and genuineness of
emotion that certitude which is possible only for one who himself
possesses that which he proclaims. This sermon was a notable example of
Phillips Brooks' definition of preaching, "Truth conveyed through
personality." The few notes here included give only a glimmer of the
range of his thought, and do not adequately convey the personal factor
which made one want to rise up and call him blessed:

Men have ever striven to conquer death, and never succeeded.
Christ too died and though He rose from the dead, He did not
return to this life and take up its habits and tasks again. St.
Paul was not thinking of overcoming death in this way, but rather
of the new consciousness and gift of power that Christ has given
men. Christianity is a conquering power. Faces what appears to
be the impossible, what experience declares to be impossible, but
does so with the word that "all things are subject to Christ."
"We see not yet all things put under him--but we see Jesus."
There is nothing that may not become subject to the spirit of man
through Christ.

Christ facing human problems: the fear of God's wrath,
superstitions arising from doubt of God's moral goodness,
sickness, sorrow, hopelessness, sin, worldliness, bitterness of
spirit and mind, suffering, and at last conquering death as an
enemy by His resurrection.

Death's mastery over us is not a physical thing. It is its power
over our spirits, its apparent defeat of hope, of work begun, of
love entered into, of faith laid hold upon, and the bitterness
that is the fruit of that defeat. Through Christ the power of
achievement was strengthened, and released by death. We resent
death perhaps--reason for shrinking is that so impersonal and
physical a process should be able to overcome a spiritual
consciousness and experience. We resent always the victory of a
lower over a higher order. (Feb. 28, 1926)

Frank Nelson combined a happy idealism with common sense, and when the
occasion moved him to inspired utterance, he drew