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 into life  everlasting,  and  the  wicked  into everlasting punishment."

There is  no  death! What seems  so  is  transition. This life  of  mortal  breath Is but  a  suburb  of  the  life  elysian Whose portal  we  call  death.

— Longfellow,  Resignation.

AGANS thought  out  for  themselves  many  things  concerning  the being of  God,  and  then  related  their  imaginings as  if  they  were  facts. Such imaginings may be  counted  by  hundreds. But since the world  began,  no  man  has  ever  imagined, in  the  remotest  manner,  that  the  charity of  a  God  could  go  so  far  as  to  lead  Him to appear  among  men  in  the  form  of  a  man, and for  their  happiness  and  salvation  to  deliver Himself  up  to  death. However, this marvel of  divine  love  which  it  never  entered into the  heart  of  man  to  conceive,  and  which is sufficient  to  astonish  heaven  and  earth, found its  accomplishment  in  the  only  true religion, which  is  the  Christian. "God s$ loved  the  world,  as  to  send  His  only  begotten Son  into  the  world." Such is  the  voice  which for more  than  nineteen  hundred  years  has echoed throughout  the  universe.

Jesus Christ  is  the  name  of  the  only  begotten Son of  God,  who  was  sent  into  the  world; He in  very  deed  lived  and  labored  in  the