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 of Christ, and members in particular." He further says there is no schism among the bodily members, and that there ought not, therefore, to be any in the body of Christ; that the various parts or members of this body (the church), "should haνe the same care one for another."

Now, the Church on earth ought to be, and so far as it is a true and living Church it will be, an image of heaven. And Paul, in the passages referred to, plainly teaches that the Church of Christ is in the human form; that its various parts or members, in their mutual relation and dependence, correspond to the different parts of on the human body. And if many persons on earth—all of them disciples of the Lord—are "one body in Christ, and every one members one of another," should not the same be true in heaven? Should not the diversity be even greater there than in the church on earth, and the harmony and union at the same time more complete? and the form or order of heaven, therefore, more perfectly human than that of the church?

This doctrine of the Grand Man may be thought by some to have no practical value, even if its truth be admitted; and the discussion of it may therefore seem to them like unprofitable speculation. But it is not so—far from it. Like every other disclosure