lving and revolving
upon itself, as a sand-spiral in a blast-furnace, without hope of death.

Oh, how convey any warning of this terrible knowledge, which is
not communicable by words! He said, "Though one return from the
dead, ye would not believe." But, O soul! repent and return while
still in the body! Lay hold on the Christ!

In the life of this world, then, does our God of love and mercy give
us rapid means (by conquest of the animal grossness and corruptible
body, raising man to the ideal man, according to God's intention) to
reunite ourselves with Him. And the soul of all animal creation is
also thereby gradually raised with us into a universal adoration of
the One Almighty God.

This is no fallen but a rising world, in which all Creation is slowly
and gloriously rising step by step.

So may our soul repay her debt to God for her past infidelities.

"Thy Maker is thine husband," says the voice of the prophet.

And the creature, with its suffering heart and mind and body, has
also its incomparable reward of bliss: for because of its love and
obedience it is raised into the spiritual body, AND TOGETHER
WITH THE SOUL BECOMES THE CHILD OF THE RESURRECTION.

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[Transcriber's Notes: The name of the author, Lilian Staveley, is not
mentioned on the title page of this text, but I have added it here. I
have made one spelling change: "enough to blow-to" to "enough to
blow to".]

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