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

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lost. We have it on the authority of the latest scientific
and medical researches, that:
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1. The skin may last for 900 years.
2. The bones may endure for 4000 years.
3. The heart may endure for 600 years.
4. The liver for 400 years.
5. The stomach for 400 years.
6. The lungs for 1500 years.
That vitalizing energy which has been the basis of
man's physical and spiritual existence from the beginning
of the world, contains the possibilities of prolonging
the life of the organism indefinitely; The ignorance of
this fact, the most vital fact of existence, has all to do
with the prevalence of disease, the untimely approach
of old age and death. When we contemplate the human
organism built with such wonderful design and magnificent
complications, containing the seeds of immortality,
and capable of an indefinite existence, we say with Cowper,
"The
hand that made us is Livine."
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THOSE who have started out on the higher road of life.
the higher spiritual, often groan over the great sacrifices
that they are asked to make-the sacrifice of the old self.
But this giving up is as it were a man holding his hands
full of silver, and one very rich should say to him, "lf
you drop that silver, Iwill fill your hands with gold."
After his hands were full ofgold, could he truthfully
say, "Oh I have given up so much." I have lost so
much in taking up the higher life."-D-_