CHAPTER XII 



MIND AND SOUI, 



" But touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not 

 read that which was spoken of by God saying unto you: I am 

 the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and of Jacob. He 

 is not the God of the dead t but of the living." St. Matthew. 

 Chap. XII. Verses 31 and 32. 



Now, the beliefs of the mind and soul which we call religion 

 are but so many different views of the truths of revelation 

 and evolution reviewed from different standpoints, in the 

 same manner that four different persons looking at a mountain 

 from different points of view, would all draw or depict the 

 mountain differently, yet each would be right ; and it is only 

 when the many-sided views of each and all of those viewing 

 the subject are compared, or someone has travelled all round 

 the mountain that a true idea of its appearance can be obtained. 

 So it is with our beliefs and opinions, religious or 

 otherwise, for not from the standpoint of religion, nor of 

 science, nor of order, nor of society alone can absolute truth 

 be obtained, unless read and checked by God's Trinity and 

 revelation. Thus we are like four persons viewing the moun- 

 tain of truth, and we have throughout all past ages fought and 

 contested as to who is right and who is wrong, and our dis- 

 putes and arguments and our ideas have been expressed, not 

 only in thoughts and words, but in acts and wars, and our dis- 

 agreements have been written in the blood of men for ages past 

 and most likely will be for ages yet to come, before mankind 

 will consent to walk round the mountain of revelation and 

 evolution and compare it from the sides of Imagination, Com- 

 prehension and Understanding as well as from that of belief 

 and custom, from the one common point of view namely, 

 from above, which we find in the science of evolution when 

 read in the light of the influences of God and His Trinity is 



