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Rh sin, that the so-called death of the body frees from sin, and that God's pardon is aught but the destruction of

sin, — these are grave mistakes. We know that all will be changed “in the twinkling of an eye,” when the last trump shall sound; but this last call of Wisdom cannot come till mortals have already yielded to each lesser call in the growth of Christian character. Mortals need not fancy that belief in the experience of death will awaken them to glorified Being.

Universal salvation rests on progression and probation, and is unattainable without them. Heaven is not a locality, but a state in which Mind,

and all the manifestations of Mind, are harmonious and immortal, because sin is destroyed, and man is found having no righteousness of his own, but in possession, like Paul and his followers, of “the Mind of the Lord.” “In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.” So we read in Ecclesiastes. This text has been transformed into the popular proverb, “As the tree falls, so it must lie.” As man falleth asleep, so shall he awake. As death findeth mortal man, so shall he be after death, until probation and growth shall effect the needful change. Mind never becomes dust. No resurrection from the grave awaits Mind, for the grave has no power over Mind.

No final judgment awaits mortals; for the judgment-day of Wisdom comes hourly and continually,

even the judgment by which mortal man is divested of all material error. As for spiritual error there is none.