Nothing is spirit but what is born of spirit, however certified to our acceptance. As the fleshly preponderates in any Christian work, the work is vitiated. Only through the resur-rection-power of Christ can the flesh, either literally or figuratively, put on incorruption.— Golden Rule.
This blind acceptance of revelation as something with which the reason has little to do, in respect to which the New Theology parts company with the old, is based on the conception that revelation is grounded on miracle, i.e., on sense,—a principle that Christ condemned over and over: "Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."—Munger's Freedom of Faith.
He is our refuge! Safe on either hand,
By noon-day or by night,
No pestilence can smite us where we stand,
Nor poisoned arrow's flight.
There is a wide-spread want of an enlightened spiritual philosophy to oppose the materializing tendency of the natural sciences—which attributes faculties and functions to the physical organs, and makes passive and blind agents the principle of activity and intelligence.
Strength drink the angels from Thy glory,
Though none may search Thy wondrous way;
Thy works repeat their radiant story,
As bright as on Creation's day.
