is the man who tries to make the best of both worlds who makes
nothing of either. And he who seeks to serve two masters misses the
benediction of both. But he who has taken his stand, who has drawn a
boundary line, sharp and deep about his religious life, who has marked
off all beyond as forever forbidden ground to him, finds the yoke easy
and the burden light. For this forbidden environment comes to be as if
it were not. His faculties falling out of correspondence, slowly lose
their sensibilities. And the balm of Death numbing his lower nature
releases him for the scarce disturbed communion of a higher life. So
even here to die is gain.

FOOTNOTES:

[65] Page 80.

[66] Rom. viii. 5-13.

[67] Col. iii. 1-10.

ETERNAL LIFE.

"Supposing that man, in some form, is permitted to remain on the
earth for a long series of years, we merely lengthen out the period,
but we cannot escape the final catastrophe. The earth will gradually
lose its energy of relation, as well as that of revolution round the
sun. The sun himself will wax dim and become useless as a source of
energy, until at last the favorable conditions of the present solar
system will have quite disappeared.

"But what happens to our system will happen likewise to the whole
visible universe, which will, if finite, become a lifeless mass, if
indeed it be not doomed to utter dissolution. In fine, it will
become old and effete, no less truly than the individual. It is a
glorious garment, this visible universe, but not an immortal one. We
must look elsewhere if we are to be clothed with immortality as with
a garment."--_The Unseen Universe._

"This is Life Eternal--that they might know Thee, the True God, and
Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent."--_Jesus Christ._

"Perfect correspondence would be perfect life. Were there no changes
in the environment but such as the organism had adapted changes to
meet, and were it never to fail in the efficiency with which it met
them, there would be eternal existence and eternal
knowledge."--_Herbert Spencer._

One of the most startling achievements of recent science is a definition
of Eternal Life. To the religious mind this is a contribution of immense
moment. For eighteen hundred years only one definition of Life Eternal
was before the world. Now there are two.

Through all these centuries revealed religion had this doctrine to
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