234 WHAT IS LIFE? 



to a terrestrial future, a better condition of things 

 than the present. 



To " consider the lilies of the field, how they grow ; 

 they toil not, neither do they spin," and to know that 

 " even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like 

 one of these," or, better expressed : to consider the 

 flowers of the field how they grow, and to know that 

 royalty in all its grandeur is not arrayed like one of 

 these, is true science and true religion, and may be 

 translated into the words, to consider the growth of the 

 merest speck, just visible by the highest power of the 

 most powerful microscope, and watch how it grows by 

 its own inherent power to become a reasoning intelli- 

 gent human being, is the height of religion as taught 

 by science and by Jesus Christ, for it differs only in 

 degree from the conception of the study of how the 

 lilies grow. 



No the priests must alter the role they have elected, 

 or they are doomed. They cannot withstand the 

 growing intelligence of the masses, especially of that 

 lower order which have the instruments of education 

 and a free press at their command, and who have no 

 inducement to sympathize with the religious and power- 

 holding classes. Are these powers capable of progress, 

 and can they alter to adapt themselves to the signs of 

 the times ? This is the serious question of the hour. 

 Is it, as of old, impossible to put new wine into old 

 wine-skins, and will the old skins burst and the wine 

 be spilled ? Or must we put new wine into fresh wine- 

 skins, and both are preserved ? If the latter must be, 

 then is the revolution serious. 



The kingdom of Heaven or of God is the kingdom 



