298 Musings by Camp- Fire and Wayside 



He ate, drank, slept, awoke, partook of human joys, 

 endured human pain, and in all points was as we are. 

 Yet he was Lord over all and blessed forever. 

 There was no seam in his robe, none between the 

 human and the divine, no inharmony, no violence 

 of construction. The divine and the human met as 

 two rivers of water meet and blend into a homo- 

 geneous and inseparable flood. He announced, as 

 he exemplified, the sublime truth of the spiritual 

 unity and identity of God and man. He was one 

 with God and one with his brethren. Here it is 

 that the sublimity of the Mosaic-Pauline conception 

 dawns upon the mind. It is as when sailing along 

 the misty Alaskan coast the cloudy curtain parts, 

 and Shishaldon, or St. Elias, stands revealed. The 

 universe, spiritual and material, is one, because the 

 Creator is one. Man, partaking of the Spirit of 

 Christ, is one with Him, and while Christ lives he 

 shall live also. Thus was life and immortality 

 brought to light. 



It has been my highly prized privilege to return 

 to the Adamic conditions of existence, to live in 

 the paradise of God, to taste the exquisite and 

 exhilarating joys of primitive life. For delight- 

 someness there is nothing on the earth like it. To 

 walk abroad free in the boundless and virgin forest, 

 to listen to the solemn spiritual breathing of the 

 pines, to be stirred with the melody of the wood- 

 thrush, and gladdened with the sight and sound of 

 sparkling streams, to breathe the crystal air sweet- 



