the divine faculty-to distinguish right from wrong— "PRACTICAL REASON." Is there a Christian, a Jew,

a Turk, or an Infidel, who will not with a loud voice proclaim the goodness of God, in endowing man with the never sufficiently to be adored faculty, PRACTICAL REASON― a faculty which enables us to distinguish and for ever separate the true "Word of God" from the equivocal and doubtful " WORD OF MAN."

Those who act up to the divine laws revealed to man by Jesus Christ must feel assured that they are acceptable to their Maker. This assurance originates in and is confirmed by the " Holy Ghost," that Spirit of Truth, which Christ says shall dwell with you for CONSCIENCE. A man without a Conscience is not a man. Hence necessarily arises the Holy Trinity God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.

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Now, indeed, is every mystery eradicated from the DOCTRINE taught by our Saviour, and every part of his sublime Morality not only fully developed but strictly confirmed by REASON. Christ says: "I am the resurrection and the life, and whoever believes in me

that is, in my DOCTRINE shall never die, but inherit

everlasting life." "I am the way, the truth, and the

life, and no one can enter the kingdom of God but through me—that is, through my DOCTRINE.” “[ am in my Father, and he is in me”—that is, my pure spirit or Soul forms no part of the material world, but at present is a member of the pure, moral, or spiritual region, where my Father reigns. I am come down upon earth to awaken your Consciences to the truth of my DOCTRINE. The DOCTRINE I teach is the door to salvation. This DOCTRINE comes from God, and its truth is manifested in man's own Conscience. Whoever understands this DOCTRINE must be convinced of its divine origin. The DOCTRINE I teach comes directly from heaven. Christ, feeling the force of his own DOCTRINE, says: "I have overcome the world." In Christ, therefore, we have a practical example of the possibility of acting up to the moral law on all occasions. Thus did Christ rise superior to all the seductions of inclination, leaving for the instruction of mankind an example and model "which may be equalled but never can be excelled."

CHRIST, then, may well say—“I have overcome the world!"

All that the advancement in knowledge and the expansion of mind have been or ever will be able

to effect is to confirm the truth of the DIVINE REVELATION, which this only begotten "Son of God" was destined to unfold to mankind. Though we now possess a perfect "Science of Mind," capable of detecting and refuting all the sophistry of the ancients, this Science even lends its powerful aid in support of Christianity, and, by its complete analysis of the faculty of "REASON," proves to absolute Conviction not only that the Religion of Christ is true, but that it is absolutely impossible that it can ever be superseded by any other - because it is the only true ONE. The chosen people of God may, therefore, look in vain for another Messiah-the work being complete and final. All that can ever be done to promote the propagation of this heaven-born "Religion" is the labour we have undertaken in the present "DIVARICATION,” of separating the precepts from the facts-the Doc-. TRINE from the HISTORY. This scientific and simple operation will prevent the possibility of any individual of any persuasion-whether Jew or Hindoo, Mahomedan or Pagan dissenting from the "Divine Revelation " given to man by Jesus Christ.

It is now incumbent on us to show how this perfect "Science of Mind" proves the truth of the "Sacred

Volume." Man arrives at the knowledge of the Moral Law only through the consciousness of the operations of his own REASON. Irrational animals can neither be moral nor immoral: deprive man of his REASON and you annul his accountability. Though lying may be attempted to be defended, on account of the general torrent of moral corruption, yet no one can seriously recommend it, as a universal law of conduct; for PRACTICAL REASON tells us with a loud voice that we ought not to lie, upon any pretence whatever. Hence the commandment · "Thou shalt not lie "—is not valid for man alone, but for all rational Beings. “Oh, Righteous Father!” says our Saviour, “ the world hath not known thee until I preached thy word unto them. I will continue until my death to declare thy pure spiritual DOCTRINE to them. So that they may love me, as I love thee, and that they may be in me, as I am in thee."

It is a positive fact that pure REASON is PRACTICAL, because it either urges us to or restrains us from action. Hence we are free-a convincing proof that PRACTICAL REASON forms no part of nature. Choice evinces Freedom-nature conforms to strict necessity. Tell the waters to run upwards!—or the planets to quit

their course! PRACTICAL REASON commands us always to be reasonable. To be reasonable is to be good. Morality likewise commands us always to be good. Therefore, the laws of REASON and the laws of MORALS are the same. The fundamental law of REASON is the foundation of Morals, and constitutes the first principle of that "Science," under the name of the "MORAL LAW." Whoever, therefore, acknowledges that he is endowed with REASON is at the same time conscious of the Moral Law, and is bound to obey its dictates or renounce his REASON.

MORALITY is independence of Nature.

This independence is Liberty in a negative sense; but the self-legislation of PRACTICAL REASON is Liberty in a positive sense: for it constitutes the whole code of "Moral Laws." REASON, then, commands us to promote the happiness of other rational beings, whether we sympathize with them or not.

The Moral Law is, therefore, valid for every rational being — nay, not excepting the highest intelligence God himself. With regard to human beings, who are subject to wants, it assumes the form of a COMMANDThe Sacred Being, who finds no impediments

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