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Rh A man's assertion that he is immortal no more proves him to be so, than the opposite assertion, that he is mortal, would prove immortality a lie. Nor is the case improved when a returned spirit teaches immortality. At the very best, on its own theories, Spiritualism can only prove that certain individuals have a continued existence after death, and maintain their affiliation with mortal flesh; but Spiritualism affords no certainty of a life that shall last forever. Life, Love, and Truth are the only evidences of immortality.

Man, in the likeness of God, cannot help being immortal. Though the grass seemeth to wither and the flower to fade, they reappear. Erase the figures that express number, shut out the tones of music, give to the worms the body called man; yet the producing Principle lives on, despite so-called laws of matter, that would make man mortal. Though the inharmony of human belief hides the harmony of Science, it cannot destroy the Principle.

The One Mind cannot be marred, for it “doeth according to His own will, in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay His hand or say unto Him, What doest thou?” Have you ever pictured this heaven and earth, inhabited by men under the control of supreme Wisdom?

The earth's orbit, and the imaginary line called the equator, are not substance. The earth's motion and position are sustained alone by Mind. Even the simple Planchette (the toy so popular fifteen years ago) attested the control of mortal mind over its lower substratum, called matter.

The point to be determined is, Shall Science explain all cause and effect, or shall these be left open to mere