The natural history of immortality

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PRINCETON, N. J.

Contents

Ei PRELIMINARY FACTS.

Seteeone sora etipner Level. i se ee Past Discoveries Warrant Great Expectations . . be aes - Theologians becoming more Accurate; the Scientific more ‘Deévott No Conflict between Religion and Science . .°.°.°. . Physical Science advancing our Knowledge of Scripture Application of Scientific Methods to the Higher Facts of Reticion Abandonment, Partial, of Physical Theories as to Mass - as to Atoms Evolved from Mass . .

7 as to Continuity without Break . ere Great Fact received by all: Visible Sere are Emblems. . °.

II. The Higher Service Of Man

Life’s Evils not of Easy Cure. . . PEt ale A Water arial © Fo

The Ancients Looked Back to a Golden ive CORE blah IAI i OS) We Look for a Great Future . °. tee sae Our Feeling as to Eternal Things a Parable of Goda reigns. (mead bg 1, How we are Carried to'Something Beyond . . .«. ... . . 10 Bimmer onthe Dest’ Man .y%o te LE The Great Life, a Reality . . . Se etl oth: «tae oat een Om rn EE Perfection the Embodied Thought of God eee Ale Adam, Image of a Divine Idea ; Christ was that Idea Realized or? Greek Notions of the Sublime and Beautiful . . . tes UES

Our own Spirit’s Thought as to the Natural and Shneriatirat Perfect 13 A Boundless Possibility of Existence and Service . . . . « 14 wi CONTENTS.

pee, THE WoRLD’s GOVERNING POWER.

PAGE What we are Depends upon the World’s Governing Power . . 15 Power is Known, and the Law of Mechanical Force . . 2 ang

Things known solely by their Interactions and Mutual Relation 16 The Physical knows nothing of Essentials andCauses . . . . 16 Historical View . . . oe thee oe Assertions of Scientific Meh not tateays ¢ithable 2 | 4 ee Matter is not known apart from Force, nor is Force known apart from Matter ao oieen ye esas 17 Mechanical Force does not fully baternres ihe Preicntenn ie tie Universe: a.) (ose eee ° Beeb k

Mere Mechanical Displacements of a Primed Homtecicon Mass would not change the quantity and quality . . . . . I9

The Eternal Power is more than Nature. .. 20

Mental and Moral Power lead to Acknowledgment i th tighee Rule ie et aN ee ie Seu eel lou ie, ite a

IV. THE Hicuest AIM AND ATTAINMENT OF MAN

Perfection in Every, Things = ts 9s \2 << <> % ou rr

The Moral of Religious Teaching. 2. 5.75 3) (he Aim ofvevery Life e 000 le es ae Enforced by Natural Facts. .. ., + '+ «| © 6 5 (5) ThewWerfect Man a.) ji. ei pase 0 0s) ee) OO That to which we are ane led mmm se

Looking into ‘a ‘Glass’. as eS TseSson from, the Eye “20.6 jee wh yes Re ee Godlessness Works Dangerous Conceits «9. °.° . .. « eee Secular Moralist’s Aim: Enlargement of it. . . . . . « 28 Fellow- Workers with God oS eek, RNS Calne 250 pe Sh

V. CHRIST, AND OUR FOLLOWING ON WHITHER HE Is

The. Youngest Day of Eternity ~:° . < . /<!-. 3 ¢) ee The World’s most Gloriou$ Bemg’ -..- .-" .\ 2 5) 2 The Perfecting of Human Nature in Him .. |. |... ee The Divinity of: His Person 2... 7). 2. 7 ea

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The Mystery is Known Somewhat . .. .

A Special and General Truth: Concentration as to the Universe .

Our own Growth even into Divine Sonship .

High Gradations of Men by Divine Power . ; Mystery of the Divine Nature Wrought in Human eee The Crowning Glory . . : wai oids uyixsitateoa 3 High Place and Service : Noblest Times and Noblest Work

VI. Going Beyond The Visible

Light Sufficient, and Darkness, for all who will. . . . None Born Perfectly Good nor Wholly Bad.

Reading Men’s Countenances. . . a a Genius and Natural Aptitude: No Eavouriiat : Opinions of Sir Frederick Leighton and Sir John E. Millais Natural and Moral Laws: Present and Future . Ps Selective Providence bs Od Rudimentary Organs, so called: are Mraic Sent Small in the Great and Great inthe Small . .

The Ungodly Missa Great Gain. . . . .© Seemingly Wrong may be Really Right . .

Material and other Mischances . .. .

VII. The Natural History Of Our Immortality; Truthfulness

OF OUR FACULTIES.

Materials of the History . . . mea. ae eis

The Work is wrought with an Art sofas Hidden and partly Known

It is Indicated by the Law and Order of the Universe. .

It is Dangerous to Neglect this Teaching, and the Verifying of it

; merour Duty Privilege or 69) 1) 6) eh That which is Essentialtoa Man. . . . Discerning the Future of Individuals and of Nations °

The Lesson to be Learned by the Natural History of the Future , Physical Laws are not more Precise than those of Life and Mind

MALE tulise sts tCASOD. Ya fal) eRe coke et Gh 0! al te Reasonable Liberty: Four Aspects of Power . . . . All Existences are Adapted to their State and Place . . Further and Larger Adaptation Exceeding Present Uses

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The Scientific Application of our Faculties is Nature’s and our own Stamp of Correctness . ee 52 Present and Future give Proof of a Coming Time oe dS The Great Example as to use of our Powers. . . . . © 53