Eternity, infinity, and unity constitute the three dimensions of the Church or body of Christ.
The first element of extension is linear, and as applied to the church suggests the idea of time, without beginning and without end. The first dimension is, then, eternity, immortality. The golden thread that runs through the Scriptures, from Genesis to Revelation, binding them into one consistent whole, is the Principle of immortality. To Truth the only death is the death of error. The mission of Jesus, of whom it was prophesied, "A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench," was to teach and demonstrate eternal life. The divine Principle of immortality finds its pinnacle of expression in Calvary and the subsequent resurrection and ascension, and its prophesied consummation in the new Jerusalem of Revelation.
The second element of extension, suggests area, the idea of space. The corresponding second dimension of the church is infinity, universality. The love of God is universal. It comprehends and includes all people and things. In the life-problem of the translation of the material back to the spiritual, no thing is so small, no person so wicked, but that reversed and regenerated in Truth they find their rightful and necessary place in the divine economy and completeness. Infinity has no outside. Salvation is universal. "For they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them," is the prophecy of Jeremiah.
