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 coördinated on their respective planes, and arranged in successive degrees according to their natural order. Religion itself is the science and philosophy of religion, together with a life according thereto. Dogmas, fanaticism, and sectarianism have been called religion, and well has the science of this day remonstrated. But such religion is practically of the past, and science and true religion must eventually be found united, as the works of God must be, in perfect concord and mutual service. Religion in its broadest sense is commensurate with Divine truth and life, but for convenience we may speak of science as appertaining to nature, and religion to God. The belief that religion is a statement of faith belongs to the past. Religion is truth and life from the Creator operative in man. When religion is made such, it is at once conclusive that religion and science are but the upper and lower parts of one thing, which one thing is as harmonious as the soul and the body. Indeed, religion is the soul of science, and without religion science has no soul, and can not exist in any true sense.

The doctrine of creation according to the law of Correspondence, by which we shall endeavor