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time suffers the same want in the op- 

 posite direction, inasmuch as everything 

 future is excluded therefrom and this 

 future growing reality must therefore 

 be drawn into the eternal. Neither 

 past nor future can exist to God; He 

 lives life undividedly, without limita- 

 tions, and needs not, as man, plot out 

 his existence in a series of moments. 

 Eternity then is not identical with un- 

 ending time; it is a different form of 

 existence, related to time as the per- 

 fect to the imperfect. 



Difficult as it is to explain what 

 eternity implies as the perfect form of 

 existence, it is no less difficult to com- 

 prehend the infinite wealth of content 

 that such a form includes. We will 

 therefore give a few brief suggestions 

 in this direction. 



How poor in content is everything 

 present to man, and likewise how de- 

 fective and unsatisfactory is his whole 

 life here in time. As a matter of fact 

 we can in each moment only think one 

 thought, perform one act, satisfy one 



