CHAPTER VI
FINDING THE SENSE OF IMMORTALITY
How shall we find the assurance of immortality?
1. We automatically find the assurance of the future when we find the reality of the present.
Naturally, assurance will be found, if at all, where it was lost. We shall automatically find the assurance of the future when we find the reality of the present.
It is not claimed that all professing Christians have a firm grasp on reality; for when religion is no more than a superficial formality, its credulous devotees experience neither truth nor doubt; they are religious automatons. But if we do not allow such Christians to attract us to heaven, neither should we permit them to drive us to perdition.
If one succeeds in finding God, if he learns to grasp the religious significance of the universe, and if he achieves a personal experience of the kingdom of God, assurance of the future will come unbidden and unsought. These great and present realities are the gateway to life and the guarantee of good things to come. Only let one find, assimilate, and build upon this three-fold present, and the soul will blossom into hope.