In God man lives, moves, and has his being. This is the Truth of Being; and to gain the realization of spiritual Life, there must be a daily growth Heavenward, a forsaking of the things of earth, — its joys, pleasures, sorrows, and sufferings, — through the influx of the Spirit, bringing joy unspeakable, and a peace which passeth all understanding, a sense of harmony which must come from "Life hid with Christ in God."
"Let your conversation be as becometh the Gospel of Christ; that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one Spirit, with one Mind, striving together for the faith of the Gospel; and in nothing terrified by your adversaries; which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, — and that of God."
Lift the standard of Truth high above all that is earthly or material, above mortal beliefs, which would personify and limit, according to human finite conception, an infinite Deity. When your thought has risen above the fetters of sense, when the glory of the Infinite bursts upon your consciousness, then is the Spirit revealed in demonstration and power, then is the Christ seen apart from all of earth, of the things of the world. Through its demonstration over all evil, will all men be drawn unto it, and be seen as the children of one Father, governed in perfect harmony and Love; for "I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me."
