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death as a condition ; when it shall be fully known 

 that death is no more than an incident of life, like 

 sleep its twin, and that life is the only fact of the 

 universe of God. 



This day is consecrated to the memory of the 

 resurrection of Jesus, who is called the Christ, as 

 narrated in the gospels of the faith called after his 

 office of anointed Master of Life, who brought 

 immortality to light, as it is written. And, indeed, 

 though there are thousands of millions of human 

 beings who have no heredity of faith in this ex 

 traordinary personage, and though among peoples 

 called broadly after his name the confidence in 

 this revealed evidence is growing dulled and lost, 

 nevertheless, it must always be from him that the 

 strongest of evidence proceeds, because, a spirit 

 ual man, conscious of his divine sonship, he knew 

 and from his knowledge declared that the spirit 

 of man does not die at all. It is not necessary 

 to hold the creed of any Christian church, so- 

 called ; it is not necessary to think at all of the 

 trinity or any other dogma or theologic conception. 

 To give full force to what he has said, it needs 

 only to recognize that element in him which has 

 never been absent from the poet and the prophet, 

 the spirit s own witness to the spirit s undy 

 ing continuance. &quot; Because I live, ye shall live 

 also,&quot; is enough. Viewed merely as the utter- 



