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endure as “ seeing Him who is invisible.”* Invisible and 
omnipotent. Invisible and ever-active : directing omnipotence 
by love. Active in a mode, and by a medium, science knows 
not of, and which Materialism rejects, for it refuses to permit 
the Soul of Force in the universe to take possession of a human 
body and incarnate itself in one personality for specific 
spiritual purposes. We cannot thus think. We dare not limit 
the freedom and power of the Absolute. Nay, we hold that if 
He were pleased to undertake the glorious enterprise of the 
religious and moral salvation of His creature, man — He must do 
so by a personal manifestation which would furnish the means 
of closest communion and most intimate intercourse with man. 
The world yearned to know a God of mercy, pity, love, and 
patience. It needed to be drawn by the “very cords of a 
man”f — the chords of sympathy, fellowship, tenderness, and 
grace. It needed to have God brought down from far-off 
clouds and inaccessible heights — from the regions of air, — 
and brought up and out from atoms of matter and physical 
force into human nature and life, into the common ways, 
the common haunts, the common hearts of ignorant and 
sin-ruined men. A true all-sided science will say so. A false 
and narrow science will not ; it will shut God out of the one 
sphere in which He is most needed — the soul of the man made 
in His own image. 
From such false science I turn for the satisfaction of my soul 
to the God manifest in the flesh, in whom I believe. Once in 
the flesh He proved Himself to be God by His control of all 
forces, material and spiritual. His last visible act gave a 
crowning proof of His Divinity. He ascended into heaven. 
There, as my faith believes, He re -assumed His invisible 
Spirituality. There He began a new epoch in the history of the 
Spiritual universe. There His activity took a new direction. 
Having put a new factor into human history by His Gospel, He 
adapted His invisible operations thereto — the operations carried 
on in the kingdom of heaven. And, in perfect harmony with 
the laws of change and development — call them the laws of 
evolution if you will — the Divine Being, the Word, the Christ 
of God, is now preparing the conditions necessary to changed 
creatures. He is preparing places for us in the many-mansioned 
universe, which is as truly His as this earthly globe : making 
ready a habitation for us when we shall have put off this 
fleshly body and shall receive a glorious spiritual body. “ For 
this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the 
* Hebrews xi. 27. 
f 1 Hosea xi, 4. 
