empty words, are virtue and justice to exist only in imagination?
What then! The robber and the robbed, the traitor to his country and he who gives his life for his fatherland, the martyr and his torturer, the unnatural son and the model daughter, are they all to share the same fate in annihilation — in the same nothingness? No, it is impossible even to imagine anything so preposterous.
5. But all has not been said. We have within us a heart which yearns after endless, everlasting happiness! Happiness! The mere mention of this word makes our heart beat more quickly, and stirs our being to its inmost depths This craving for happiness, this intense longing, must be destined to be satisfied at some future period. But where? Where is this endless and complete happiness for which we long so ardently — where is it to be found? Everything teaches us, everything proves to us, that it can not be found upon earth. Our heart is, indeed, not very large, but the universe does not suffice to fill it. Caesar, to whom at one time half the world was subject, said with melancholy discontent: "Is that all?"
Therefore, if the longing for happiness is so firmly rooted in our heart, and yet can never find complete or permanent satisfaction upon earth, it follows that it must be possible for man to attain it after this life is ended, that means that death is not annihilation. This reasoning should suffice.
6. But we have kept the most conclusive argument to the last. We have the words of Christ Himself as a pledge that there is a future life; and He speaks as follows: "The just shall
