will be no more, even in thought. The 'old
man' will have given place to the 'new.' This is the method of Jesus.
There is no other. Yes, for the present we reckon with material
symbols; we have not yet fully learned their unreality. But at length,
if we are faithful, we shall lay them aside, and know only Truth and
its pure manifestations.

"Ah, my friends, how simple is Christianity! It is summed up in the
Sermon on the Mount. Our salvation is in righteousness. He who thinks
right shall know things as they are. He who thinks wrong shall seem to
know them as they are not, and shall pass his days in sore travail,
even in wars, famine, and utter misery. Then why not take up the
demonstration of Christianity in the spirit of joy and freedom from
prejudice with which we pursue our earthly studies, and as gladly,
thankfully seek to prove it? For it, of all things, is worth while. It
alone is the true business of men. For if what we have developed in
our many talks regarding God, man, and the mental nature of the
universe and all things is true, then are the things with which men
now occupy themselves worth while? No, decidedly no! But are the
things which we have developed true? Yes, for they can be and have
been demonstrated. Then, indeed, are we without excuse. Carmen has
shown us the way. No, she is not unnatural; she is only divinely
natural. She has shown us what we all may become, if we but will. She
has shown us what we shall be able to do when we are completely lost
in accord with God, and recognize no other life, substance, nor law
than His. But--

"'I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create
evil,' cried the prophet. _Truth always has its suppositional
opposite!_ Choose ye then whom ye will serve. All is subject to proof.
Only that which is demonstrably true, not after the change which we
call death, but here this side of the grave, can stand. The only test
of a Christian is in the 'signs following.' Without them his faith is
but sterile human belief, and his god but the distorted human concept
whom kings beseech to bless their slaughter.

"'Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein
is he to be accounted of?

"'His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very
day his thoughts perish.

"'That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born
of the Spirit is spirit.

"'Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh; yea,