Holding a material sense of Life, and lacking the spiritual sense of it, mortals die in belief, and regard all things as temporal. A sense material apprehends nothing strictly belonging to the nature and office of Life. It conceives and beholds nothing but mortality, and has but a feeble concept of immortality.
In order to reach the true knowledge and consciousness of Life, we must learn it of Good. Of evil we can never learn it, because sin shuts out the real sense of Life, and brings in an unreal sense of suffering and death.
Knowledge of evil, or belief in it, involves a loss of the true sense of Good, God; and to know death, or to believe in it, involves a temporary loss of God, the infinite and only Life.
Resurrection from the Dead (that is, from the Belief in Death) must come to all sooner or later; and they who have part in this resurrection are they upon whom the Second Death has no power.
The sweet and sacred sense of the permanence of man's unity with his Maker can illumine our present being with a continual presence and power of Good, opening wide the portal from death into Life; and when this Life shall appear “we shall be like
