Natural  Law :  "  Mortification."

Spiritual  /IDan,

He  who  lives  the  Spiritual  Life  has
a  distinct  kind  of  Life  added  to  all
the  other  phases  of  Life  which  he
manifests — a  kind  of  Life  infinitely
more  distinct  than  is  the  active  Life
of  a  plant  from  the  inertia  of  a  stone.
The  vSpiritual  man  is  more  distinct
in  point  of  fact  than  is  the  plant  from


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the  stone.  This  is  the  one  possible
comparison  in  Nature,  for  it  is  the
widest  distinction  in  Nature;  but
compared  with  the  difference  between
the  Natural  and  the  Spiritual  the
gulf  which  divides  the  organic  from
the  inorganic  is  a  hair's-breadth.  The
natural  man  belongs  essentially  to
this  present  order  of  things.  He  is
endowed  simply  with  a  high  quality
of  the  natural  animal  lyife.  But  it
is  Life  of  so  poor  a  quality  that  it  is
not  Ivife  at  all.  He  that  hath  not  the
Son  hath  not  Life ;  but  he  that  hath
the  Son  hath  Life — a  new  and  distinct
and  supernatural  endowment.  He
is  not  of  this  world.     He  is  of  the


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timeless   state,   of  Eternity.     It  doth
7iot  yet  appear  what  he  shall  be.
Nattiral  Law :  "  Biogenesis."

Spiritual  Morl^.
The  Spiritual  World  is  not  a  castle
in  the  air,  of  an  architecture  unknown
to  earth  or  heaven,  but  a  fair,  ordered
realm  furnished  with  many  familiar
things  and  ruled  by  well-remembered
Laws.
Natural  Law  :  "  Introduction."

Spirituality.
The  test  of  spirituality  is  that
you  cannot  tell  whence  it  cometh  or
whither  it  goeth.  If  you  can  tell,
if  you   can  account   for  it  on   philo-


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