t only forced back to a continuance of a horrible existence
here, but that each and every one of such sinners shall be punished by
imprisonment and fine. If that isn't serving the devil, what in the
name of common sense is it? Where are the good Samaritans among the
pretended followers of the loving Christ? What sort of a reckoning
will such lawmakers have to meet, and what penalties undergo under the
applied judgment of the Great Teacher and exemplars? "Woe to him
through whom offences come," he said, and again: "Because ye did not
give aid and comfort to the least of these, I will not call you of my
flock." Could anything be more brutally unmerciful than such a law as
this in its dealings with the most helpless, forlorn, and seemingly
Godforsaken of all earth's children--the voluntary suicide?

How the demons must gloat over the lost souls who formed and enforced
such a fiendish law! Why this everlasting "harking back" to Moses,
while posing as followers of teachings utterly at variance with his?
Let us admit that we are Jews and stop persecuting them because they
are not Christians, or let us try to know what Christ Jesus really
meant us to understand by his ethics of love and good will to men.

Many people have lost all their faith in the immortality of the soul,
because Moses did not preach it. It is quite possible that even the
worshipped Moses did not know everything that men may yet come to know
about this, and anent a world of other things. Neither did the
troglodytes, nor the cliff dwellers know of electricity or the X-ray!
But Jesus knew of the life--the eternal, unquenchable life--of the soul
beyond this mortal existence, and he knew and taught the way and the
life that leads to that higher life. All through his teachings run
this under-current of belief in the value of the individual soul, and
instructions as to the highest and best way to evolve it from its
lowest estate up to the Infinite.

Fancy what a revolution would come to the whole so-called Christian
world if the ethics of Jesus, so plainly set down in his legacy to the
children of men, were understood and lived! What wrong and injustice
would be done away with, what works of mercy would be wrought!

HUMAN LIFE.

From the earliest soul consciousness to this very hour the mystery of
human life has been, and is the subject of greatest interest. What is
the origin of man? What is he here for? What is the everlasting
purpose of