Beautiful builders

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UNITED STATES OF' AMERICA.

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The fact of life proves our immortality, the Fatherhood of God, and the brotherhood of man, and the grand ultimate is, to love mercy, do justly, and walk humbly with God.

Ecstasy, fervent heat, and exhilaration are not Christianity.

These leave man, in the summer hours of life, listless, and without knowledge of his great inheritance.

We must" be mindful of our ownership in Christ.

And we must keep our inheritance before us ; by this we will feel the influx of light, and the struggles through which we have come will be forgotten in the knowledge that TRUTH is ours.

And the desert of materiality will no more distress us, nor the sirocco of doubt parch us with thirst.

Let us, then, be of good cheer, knowing that our hands rest in the loving clasp of our Father.

Then we will fear no man, for the purity of soul gives Life, Truth, and Love.

We must cease wearing garments that give Truth the appearance of a living lie.

III. Do we not hear, '' We are sinners," continually repeated ?

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Do these self-same accusers commit any less sin ?

Does the Father-God make mistakes, and leave them to be corrected by man ?

Does God the Father make a law, and leave the so-called sinner to make it over and hand it back to Him, saying, ** This is your law revised '' ?

No, this cannot be.

Jesus proves this, and said, " What I do ye shall do also, and greater works shall ye do/'

The flowers of blessings innumerable that He gave are not asleep by the shores of Galilee and Genesareth ; these are ours to-day, for He says, ** I am the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.*'

We know that Jesus blessed this glad earth, and ** verily it shall be blessed."

We know that He left everything new and 5^oung.

And that all in His sight is as the sweet flowers of early spring.

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Life is a golden harmony, but by adhering to darkness and despair we lose sight of our inheritance.

Amid human discontent we forget our lives are to grow as the lilies—** Consider the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin ; yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these."

We are thus made to understand that man is made in the ** image and likeness" of God, his Father.

Thus out of self-imposed darkness we arise in the likeness of Him who says, ** Come unto me all ye that are a- weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest."

We realize that this gives us all things.