natural enmity of mortal man toward God. It quickly [5]
imparts a new apprehension of the true basis of being,
and the spiritual foundation for the affections which en-
throne the Son of man in the glory of his Father; and
judges, through the stern mandate of Science, all human
systems of etiology and teleology. [10]
If God does not recognize matter, how did Jesus, who was
“the way, the truth, and the life,” cognize it?
Christ Jesus' sense of matter was the opposite of that
which mortals entertain: his nativity was a spiritual and