THE ARGUMENT FOR IMMORTALITY.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Is not the belief in man's immortality involved in the- assumption of God's existence ? If God be, He must love, otherwise He is not the highest in the universe, and therefore- not really God:—
" For the loving worm within its clod, Were diviner than a loveless God Amid his worlds, I will dare to say."
If then God is and loves, there must be some object of His- love. Now we at least can conceive of nothing which can be- the object of God's love if man be not. Such a man, let us say, as Jesus of Nazareth. But the object of God's love must be immortal, for love is inconceivable between the Eternal- and a being who lasts but for a moment. Care for such beings on the part of the Eternal there might be, interest in them and amusement, but not love; any more than there- could be in man love for a butterfly. Man being the object of God's love is therefore immortal. Does not Christ's own argument for the resurrection suggest this thought? "Now that the dead are raised even Moses showeth when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Now he is not the God of the dead but of the living; for all live unto him."—I am, Sir, Litc.,
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