the lower passes, that the higher may come to THE 



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realization. What we call death is the condition 



of progress. It is a mark of advancing life. 



What a wonderful story science tells of the 

 progress of life from a simple cell, the most rud- 

 imentary form of life, "mounting from level to 

 level on the ladder of progression," until it has 

 reached man! In that minute cell "were held 

 all the possibilities of physical and spiritual de- 

 velopment which we see manifest in cultivated, 

 Christianized man and woman of today." 



And what a page of prophecy it unfolds! 

 Is not Victor Hugo entirely sane when he says, 

 "I am the tadpole of an archangel"? He is 

 entirely sane. And the prophecy and promise 

 includes all life. While it strengthens our 

 sense of an immortal life, it includes the idea 

 that all life is spiritual in its essence, and that 

 it is all pressing upward for a higher and still 

 higher manifestation. It gives us ever-growing 

 confidence of that 



One far off divine event 



To which the whole creation moves. 



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