The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-14

suit of cultivation. The birds of the
 air are but development from the fish of the sea. The history of the earth as seen in her stony strata tells only of growth from good to better. From aeon to aeon she has been bringing to birth higher and higher orders of being. Says St. John, Now are we the sons of
 God, but it does not yet appear what
 We shall be, but when it doth appear we shall be like Jesus. So the human race goes on improving. The thoughts
 of men are widening with the circle of the suns, and man as he now is is but a faint prophecy of what he shall be. | 3. In obedience to this law progress goes on forever. Every creation has in
 himself the capacity to go on enlarging and improving forever. Every new creature is but a development out of an older one. The flower is only devel- oped leaf, the fruit Is but the perfected i flower. The higher orders of creatures grow out of the lower. The spiritual man is but a ripened physical man. It
 is one continuous never-ending process of life. The new grows out of the old, and the old lives on in the new. The child grows out of his parent and is called by his name, and the parent lives on in the child. The disciple grows out of his master and the master
 lives on in his disciple.
 | In this process there is no death.
 There is change of body. Ten times in
 our seventy years of life we change our body. but life goes on. Four times in [
 in body. but the same life runs through Ia thousand generations. Adam still lives in the infant born to-day, and will
 live in the race until humanity shall
 have entered upon that higher stage of
 existence in the resurrection.
 The man is not dead when his own
 children carry his body to the grave.
 The master Is not dead when his disci- | ples work above his bier It is in our children and in our disciples that we 1 live our larger life on earth The cater pillar lives on in the butterfly. Jesus, the babe of Bethlehem lives on in Jesus the glorified of the Ascension Mount.
 Even so the mortal puts on immortality 1 and death is swallowed up in victory. | Degeneration and death come to those only who disregard this unchanging law of birth, growth, ripening and reproduc- ] tion. The family ceases to be when 1t { fails to reproduce itself The disciple dies when he ceases to reproduce him.
 self. Nations perish when marriage is disregarded. The church will cease to 1 be when she ceases to beget and nourish | spiritual children through baptism.
 But the law of the kingdom abides. ] Life in obedience to it can be calculated with absolute certainty. So that the { life of man from infancy to age, from one generation to another, from one age to another, from one world to another, can be planned with scientific accuracy. Tn obedience to that plan every man can be sure that his development will
 be onward and upward forever. To him
 there is no death. Before him stretches
 the never-ending. ever widening path of life.that grows brighter and brighter unto the perfect day.
 From these obvious facts it would fol- low that the first and only bussiness of every man is to find this kingdom of
 God, learn it's ways and live according { to it's unchanging law. So Jesus said,
 Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and it's righteousness.
 \ But you say where is the kingdom;
 who will tell us of it? Here 1t is. The
 church one, holy Catholic, apostolic and leternal is the kingdom of God. I. a minister of that church will tell you of lit. It was organized by the king, Gods King of Men, Jesus of Nazareth. It was continued by His apostles and has lcontinued to grow until to-day. It is not a man-made affair. It was not manufactured. It was born at Bethle-
 hem, when the angels sang peace on
 earth, to men of good will. It renews : itself from generation by baptism and
 the birth of its children It Is still the