s the highest, the ideal, the supreme, the soul
finds rest in Him, and there grows into a life that death cannot
annihilate. In the presence of the great master passion, with the
soul thrilling with nobleness, as when dying for another, burned at
the stake for righteousness' sake, the spirit goes straight to God,
into the infinite bosom, an angel fit for only heaven.

"If the soul hungers and thirsts for God it will reach him. If, at
the last moment, a man's whole nature cries longingly in faith to
Christ,--that will save him, waft him, draw him into the divine
abode. And this explains the Christian plan of so-called salvation.
Faith in Christ is the master passion, and love the magnet that
draws the soul to its own kind. It may be set down as true that
vice and sin have no vitality. Wickedness is death. Virtue and love
of God are life."

But the question recurs just here, Is there absolutely no possibility of
immortality for him who does not advance beyond a certain conscious and
partly automatic intelligence on the physical plane? Does the gate of
possibilities, does the door of opportunity close with this brief mortal
life? To that question science as well as faith answers "no." The law of
Evolution is the law of eternal possibility and opportunity. The spark
of immortality--the divine spark, implanted by God, when he made man in
His image,--this is eternal in its nature, and unquestionably survives
death. But immortality is the result of man's co-operation with the
Divine. God has implanted the spark. He has placed man in an environment
of discipline and of opportunity. The individual _may be_ whatever he,
himself, decides and chooses to be. Not all in an hour, or in a year;
not, perhaps, even in this entire lifetime; but sometime and somewhere
he who is unfaltering in his allegiance to his ideal shall realize it at
last. And the degree of immediateness and celerity with which he
realizes it depends entirely on the degree of spiritual energy that he
brings to bear on his purpose. The higher the potency, the swifter the
result.

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[Sidenote: Also the Holy Ghost, the Comforter.]

Science as well as ethics recognizes the reality of the unseen
potencies. Science is, indeed, pointing the way. "The influence of the
Holy Spirit, exquisitely called the Comforter," says Professor William
James, "is a matter of actual