I Have Not Long To Live. I

What Do You Mean By Faith? Is Faith Enough For Man? Should He Be Satisfied With Faith Alone? Is There No Way Of Finding Out The Truth? Is The Attitude Of Faith, Of Believing In Something For Which There Can Be No More Than Philosophic Proof, The True Mark Of A Christian?

It Is Only Of Life On Earth, However, That One Can Speak With Any Certainty. It Seems To Me That All Life On Earth, The Sum Total Of Life Upon The Earth, Has Purpose.

This Is Written In The Elder Days As The Earth Rides Close To The Rim Of Eternity, Edging Nearer To The Dying Sun, Into Which Her Two Inner Companions Of The Solar System Have Already Plunged To A Fiery Death. The Twilight Of The Gods Is History; And Our Planet Drifts On And On Into That Oblivion From Which Nothing Escapes, To Which Time Itself May Be Dedicated In The Final Cosmic Reckoning.

It Seems To Me, Thinking Of It, That There Must Be Some Universal Plan Which Set In Motion The Orbiting Of The Electrons About The Nucleus And The Slower, More Majestic Orbit Of The Galaxies About One Another To The Very Edge Of Space

If The Means Were Available, We Could Trace Our Ancestry - Yours And Mine - Back To The First Blob Of Life-like Material That Came Into Being On The Planet.