lOO Natural Salvation. 



the proper food of the cells, without the present hard 

 labor of preparation. 



No lengthy preamble or constitution for the proposed 

 gens was thought necessary. Its strength was in its high 

 purpose and intent. Indeed, the name itself was thought 

 to be sufficient as constitution. And to all who are dis- 

 tinctly Christian, it was believed that the idea would 

 appeal strongly as an efficient means of bringing the world 

 in harmony with the central doctrine of the faith. 



To summarize the doctrine of Natural Salvation as out- 

 lined on the previous pages, we have first of all to record 

 and emphasize the later, better conception of matter. 

 That protean mystery of the visible universe is not the 

 dead, passive clay of a Supernatural Potter, wrought, 

 moulded, and formed only beneath his hand, but is itself 

 the Potter, both potter and clay : the basic substance of a 

 self-created, self-moving cosmos, and infinite and eternal 

 entity. 



This sublime conception alone comports and corresponds 

 with the evolution of mind, its desire of infinite opportu- 

 nity, its tendency to unlimited growth and its hopes of im- 

 mortal life. The universe is endless, the field which it 

 offers life boundless. On the infinite breadth of Void lies 

 outspread this inscrutable mystery which the physicist 

 now terms matter, but whose real name mortal lips have 



