(Rom. 8:29). "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and
it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall
appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is" (I Jno.
3:2). "When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also
appear with Him in glory" (Col. 3:4). "Now unto him that is able to keep
you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of
His glory with exceeding joy" (Jude 24). "For our citizenship is in
heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who
shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed
to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby He is able
even to subject all things unto Himself" (Phil. 3:20, 21 R.V.).

It is natural that Satan should suggest to humanity that which had been
the object of his own unholy ambition; and especially is it natural,
since by such a separation of humanity from its God, he could claim that
authority over them, and secure that worship from them, which he so much
craved.

There are, then, at least two distinct methods proposed for the
uplifting of humanity, and these are brought into sharp contrast; for
one is of Satan, and the other is of God. Since both these methods claim
to aim at the same end--though one ideal is not worthy to be compared
with the other--the method, alone, forms the first point for discussion.

Under the Satanic control, man has always been strangely influenced in
the matter of his relation to his Creator. He, too, has been willing to
assume a hopeless position of independence toward God; and, under that
abnormal relation, he has gone out alone to grope his way; blindly
seeking to build his own character, and by education and cultivation to
improve his natural heart, which God has pronounced humanly incurable.
He has also bent his inventive skill to the development of means by
which God-imposed labor may be avoided; and much of his selfish greed
springs from a desire to purchase a substitute who shall bear for him
the discomfort of a sweating brow. "God is not in all his thoughts;" nor
has he any disposition to claim the help of God upon the terms upon
which it is offered. The Satanic method for life prompts him to become a
god by a process of self-help and development of the finite resources.

It is very possible and natural to introduce much of religious form into
the world system of self-help; for there is a great field for reli