The following appeared in a Western newspaper some time ago:

Thomas Alva Edison was moved to a statement of his faith while attending the funeral of President Harding. The great inventor said that he had been seeking after truth and had made much progress in regard to the great beyond and life after death. "The soul after death takes flight," he said, "but in what form is unknown."

He says he does not believe that the spirit returns to earth to communicate with the living, but he does believe that the soul itself exists after death. Where, how, and in, what form it exists he does not pretend to know, and will lend no support to those that build up fanciful theories as to its nature and habits.

"There is a great directing Head of things and people, a Supreme Being who looks after the destinies of the world. I have faith in a Supreme Being, and all my thoughts are regarding the life after death-where the soul goes, what form it takes, and its relation to those now living."

But though all his thoughts are in that direction he has no knowledge, and does not pretend to have any knowledge, other than that given to all others. His long training in scientific ways of thinking has not put him any nearer the great secret than the simplest child that is content to believe that God alone knows all and will reveal what it is well that we should know in His own time and in His own way. The time for knowing that great secret may be only when we have passed beyond this earthly life. In any event if it were His will that we should know beforehand, it is improbable that He would intrust the imparting of the great secret to those strange phantoms of the human mind that men call the spirits of the departed, but that speak in such strangely cryptic speech and often with such imbecilic thoughts that the sober minds of normal beings cannot comprehend them.

Edison is honest. He refuses to permit himself to be deceived by what he would like to believe."

As stated, the above appeared in a Western daily paper some time ago, and is given for what it is worth. The editorial statement, "The time for knowing the great secret may be only when we have passed this earthly life," really ignores divine revelation.

The mind of man, uncontrolled by divine revelation, only leads to a labyrinth of uncertainties. He receives not "the things of the Spirit of God, they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned" (1 Cor. 2:14).

Reason refuses revelation. It exalts the mind of man to a pinnacle of pride, from whence he presumes to judge what is, and what is not, worthy of God. It is well that Mr. Edison believes "there is a Supreme Being who looks after the destinies of the world," well also that he recognizes that there is a life beyond this present state of existence; but how void of comfort is the acknowledgment of these facts! To know that we must live on and on beyond this present sphere, and that there is a Supreme Being governing the universe, to whom, if this be true, we are necessarily accountable, is enough to plunge the soul into dark despair. It would almost seem that the aged inventor has never got beyond the men of Athens, who reared an altar,