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

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her life for her offspring
as will the human mother. If
a mother should be asked, "Why do you sacrifice yourself
so recklessly for that little one?" the answer would
be, "Because it is MINE."
A woman once said to a man whom she loved for the
time being, "I wish you were mine, and that we
were
away off somewhere by ourselves." If her wish had
come true, how tenderly she would have` cared for him,
and how much she would have sacrificed to be with him.
Unhesitatingly she would have given up home, friends,
everything. Why? She would have answered that
question, "Because he is MINE."
Mind is life formed into thoughts. Unformed life
seems not to be conscious. The tree lives but does not
think, it has no mind.
it therefore has a mind.
The animal lives and also thinks,
Observation shows that the animals
do at times manifest the power to think to a very
limited extent, but man is practically the only thinking
animal.
Nearly all thinking is involuntary.
Comparatively few
can take up a subject for thought about which they have
not previously considered and follow it out in orderly,
logical sequence to its ultimate conclusion, and express
it in clear, concise language.
The Lord Christ said to the Jews, "Ye have no life in
yourselves." All life in the world is one life. It is the
world's life. The life that animates the tree, the animal,
or the man is one life. The difference of manifestation
is because of the difference of organism; _even as a musician
playing upon different kinds of instruments will
produce music of different kinds and qualities; yet he is
the same musician and exercising the same skill. So
the one life acting upon different organisms produces different
manifestations because of the difference in the
various organisms.
The ordinary man lives from and is