258 Inasmuch 







Mai. ii:5 &quot;My covenant,&quot; said God of Levi, &quot;was with 



John x:io hi of life.&quot; &quot;I came, said Christ &quot;that they 

 may have life, and may have it abundantly.&quot; 

 &quot;Who hath been made,&quot; writes the author of 

 Hebrews, &quot;not after the law of a carnal com- 

 Hb. vii:ie mandment, but after the power of an end 

 less (indissoluble) life.&quot; &quot;For the law of the 

 Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, made me free,&quot; 

 Romans viii:2 savs St. Paul, &quot;from the law of sin and death.&quot; 

 That an individual can share, in any proper way, 

 a principle of &quot;life abundant&quot; of this nature and 

 not express it in his own life, is just as unthink 

 able as that the sun should rise and fail to give 

 light. 



The Principle The principle oj expansion: Expansion as a prin- 

 of Expansion Q ^ Q of j^ f o u ows&amp;gt; or proceeds with, expression 



as a principle of life, as certainly as light ac 

 companies the rising of the sun. Expansion is, 

 indeed, the first sure evidence of germination. 

 Here, however, &quot;the law of the spirit of life in 

 Christ Jesus,&quot; demonstrates and holds a clear 

 supremacy over all the ordinary laws of life. The 



The Christian latter live by living, they expand by assimilation; 



Paradox ^ f ormer (it i s the Christian paradox) lives by 



dying, it expands by giving. &quot;Except a corn 



johnxii:24 of wheat,&quot; said Christ, &quot;fall into the earth and 

 die, it abideth by itself alone: but if it die, it 

 beareth much fruit.&quot; 



&quot;The Holy Turn to the forty-seventh chapter of the 



Prophet Ezekiel and read the vision of the 

 Holy Waters . From one abundant source , 

 at the &quot;south side of the altar,&quot; they issue under 



