gods than one. This idolatrous and false sense of Life is all that dies, or appears to die.
The opposite understanding of God brings to light Life and Immortality. Death has no quality of Life; and no divine fiat commands us to believe in aught which is unlike God, or to deny that He is Life Eternal.
Life as God, moral and spiritual Good, is not seen in the mineral, vegetable, or animal kingdoms. Hence the inevitable conclusion, that Life is not in these kingdoms, and that the popular views to this effect are not up to the Christian standard of Life, or equal to the reality of Being, whose Principle is God.
When “the Word is made flesh” among mortals, the Truth of Life is rendered practical on the body. Eternal Life is partially understood; and sickness, sin, and death yield to Holiness, Health, and Life, — that is, to God. The lust of the flesh and the pride of physical life must be quenched in the Divine Essence, — that omnipotent Love which annihilates hate, that Life which knows no death.
“Who hath believed our report?” Who understands these sayings? He to whom the arm of
