express pain and pleasure. His triumph over the grave [25]

was an everlasting victory for Life; it demonstrated the

lifelessness of matter, and the power and permanence

of Spirit. He met and conquered the resistance of the

world.

If you will admit, with me, that matter is neither [30]

substance, intelligence, nor Life, you may have all that

is left of it; and you will have touched the hem of the [1]

garment of Jesus' idea of matter, Christ was “the way;”

since Life and Truth were the way that gave us, through