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410 BOOK OF THE A. AND A. KITE.
our own destinies ; and God does not save us with«
out our co-operation.
— Death is not, for the sage. It is a phantom
which the ignorance and weakness of the multitude
make horrible.
— Change is the evidence of movement, and
movement reveals life alone. Even the bodj would
not be decomposed if it were dead. All the atoms
that compose it retain life, and move to free them-
selves. The spirit is not the first to be disengaged,
that it may live no longer. Can thought and love
die, when the basest matter does not?
— If change should be called death, we die and
are born again every day ; for every day our forms
change. Let us fear, then, to go out from and rend
our garments, but let us not dread to lay them aside
when the hour for rest comes
3. The divine light, that outshining of the su-
preme reason or word of the Deity, " which lighteth
every man that cometh into the world," has not been
altogether wanting to the devout of any creed. The
permanent revelation, one and universal, is written
in visible nature, is explained by reason, and comple-
ted by the wise analogies of faith.
— Faith has in all ages been the lever whereby to
move the world.
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