Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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gress there is much for us to pass under ere we reach the
goal.
The New Life consists of the fruition of all hopes,
the realization of all dreams, the Divine promise of
the fadeless glory of a conscious immortality to the
utmost fulfilled.
Its consummation is a final reunion
with God, coincident with the perfection of the soul
by its ultimate absolution from all materiality. All
it has to give-and all or nothing-this life asks for
in return, but is not the pearl well worth the price?
It is here we learn the tremendous import of the words
of the Master: He that loveth mother, father, husband,
or wife, child, brother, or sister more than me, is not
worthy of me; and the testis a trying one indeed. As
long as we look upon the giving up of things that belong
to the old order of life, in the light of a painful sacrifice,
we are as yet far from spiritual birth; we should learn
to conquer each difficulty in its turn, and learning the
love that is greater than all riches, and finding the
peace that passeth all understanding, we press forward
to the prize of the high calling, for such should be ours.
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T0 MY PEOPLE
(From the mountain top.)
BY
EITA Gill!! NIELSBN
Night-and the duslsy shadows
Over the forest fall.
Here on the lone mountain's summit,
People, I hear you call.