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as they love it, in spite of its limitations, for the precious 

 beginnings of understanding, the gradual breaking- 

 down of partitions. He is in every moment of their life, 

 gay and rollicking as well as sad. With them, and for 

 them, He still indwells the sphere of time and limitation. 

 With them He shares it, for them He accepts and re- 

 joices in it; content, because He is satisfied with the 

 travail as He watches and enters into each little forward 

 step of understanding. Therefore memory must remain 

 with Him as long as there are souls still moving on the 

 upward path ; as long as there are souls still unperfected. 

 If, as one is fain to believe, there are other spheres of 

 endeavour, other lives of approximation, planes of 

 higher, freer service, in the soul's journey of approach 

 by infinite gradation to the consummation of perfect 

 union with God, He must be there too. And in every 

 stage, as long as limitation endures, He must share that 

 limitation, and memory be for Him the means by which 

 He can keep perfect touch with every soul in every ex- 

 perience it has. His manhood is a perpetual reality, not 

 a past episode. This is not the placeto enlarge upon such 

 ideas of future existence, however closely one may cling 

 to them. They are speculative ; though not wholly un- 

 supported by evidence, even if such direct evidence as 

 exists is not perfectly convincing; and those who dis- 

 agree with them may dismiss them with this word. Only 

 we must urge that if Christ is truly with us in this pre- 

 sent, human life, then it would seem at least that His 

 memory of human conditions must enter into His deal- 

 ings with us. 



But we answered no, as well as yes, and for this 

 reason. 



Memory cannot persist, as we have reasoned else- 

 where, in transcendent Being 1 . We need not recapitu- 

 late the argument, but we may recall that it turned on 

 1 Evolution and Spiritual Lift, chaps, v. and vi. 



