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142 The Infinite never began nor ended. Mind and its formations can never be annihilated. Man is not a

pendulum, swinging betwixt evil and Good, joy and sorrow, sickness and health, Life and death. Life and its faculties are not measured by calendars. The perfect and immortal are the eternal likeness of their Maker. Man is by no means a material germ, rising from the imperfect, and endeavoring to reach Spirit, above his origin. The stream rises no higher than its source.

The measurement of Life by solar years robs youth and gives ugliness to age. The rising sun of virtue and Truth marks the morn of Being. Its manhood is the eternal noon, undimmed by a declining sun. As the physical and material sense of beauty fades, the radiance of Spirit should dawn upon the enraptured sense with brighter glories.

Never record ages. Minute chronological data are no part of the vast Forever. Time-tables of birth and

death are so many conspiracies against manhood and womanhood. But for the error of measuring and limiting all that is good and beautiful, we should enjoy more than threescore years and ten, and yet maintain our vigor, freshness, and promise. We shall continue to be always beautiful and grand, whenever mortal mind so decrees. Each succeeding year will then make us wiser and better in looks and deeds.

Life is eternal. We should find this out, and begin

the demonstration thereof. Beauty and goodness are immortal. Let us then shape our views of existence into loveliness, freshness, and continuity, instead of into age and ugliness.