gion of Jesus has probably always suffered more
from those who have misunderstood than from those who have opposed it.
Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 67.
January 16th. It is impossible to believe that the amazing successions of
revelations in the domain of Nature, during the last few centuries, at
which the world has all but grown tired wondering, are to yield nothing
for the higher life. Natural Law, Introduction, p. 32.
January 17th. Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every
man and woman every day has a thousand of them. Greatest Thing in the
World.
January 18th. What is Science but what the Natural World has said to
natural men? What is Revelation but what the Spiritual World has said to
Spiritual men? Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 73.
January 19th. Life depends upon contact with Life. It cannot spring up
out of itself. It cannot develop out of anything that is not Life. There
is no Spontaneous Generation in religion any more than in Nature. Christ
is the source of Life in the Spiritual World; and he that hath the Son
hath Life, and he that hath not the Son, whatever else he may have, hath
not Life. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 74.
January 20th. It is a wonderful thing that here and there in this hard,
uncharitable world, there should still be left a few rare souls who think
no evil. Greatest Thing in the World.
January 21st. The physical Laws may explain the inorganic world; the
biological Laws may account for the development of the organic. But of
the point where they meet, of that strange borderland between the dead
and the living, Science is silent. It is as if God had placed everything
in earth and heaven in the hands of Nature, but reserved a point at the
genesis of Life for His direct appearing. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p.
69.
January 22d. Except a mineral be born "from above"--from the Kingdom just
ABOVE it--it cannot enter the Kingdom just above it. And except a man be
born "from above," by the same law, he cannot enter the Kingdom just
above him. Natural Law, Bio-genesis, p. 72.
January 23d. If we try to influence or elevate others, we shall soon see
that success is in proportion to their belief of our belief in them.
Greatest Thing in the World.
January 24th. The world is not a play-ground; it is a school-room. Life
is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all
is how better we can love. Greatest Thing in the World.
January 25th What a noble
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