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 beheld the angel. The "kingdom of God" has come nigh unto us, and if we reject all intimations of it, then would the dust of evil be shaken off against us, and the woe pronounced against Chorazin and Bethsaida will cleave to us.

No: it is better to "acknowledge the mighty works done in our midst," and repent of our falses and evils, that we may become recipients of the heavenly influx that is waiting to descend and ultimate itself upon the earth. The church upon earth must be one with the church in heaven, that there may be a full, pure, and perfect communication of the Divine soul with its created body. "Man is created only to be a recipient of the Divine life;" not a blind unconscious recipient, like a half-dead, partially-paralyzed body, that cannot act in accordance with the will of the soul, but a living, conscious recipient, in a full and perfect communication with the soul, and in the full vigour of life hastening to do its bidding. When man looks to the Lord, and through Him comes into the "kingdom of God," then is the ultimate life perfected.