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Show TKOLCIITS ON THE IIiIE tC003I. Somi. people ha e a habit of referring re-ferring to what thtv term the economy of God. Tho full purport of the 1 hraj is so comprehensive that when the finite mind seeks to L,rap it the investigator Is lost in wonderment. The principle it in volvesarj lies to all cxL ting things, hence its operations are as w ide as eternity, being withcut limit It injliis the legitimate activity of everi thing this being the basis of reduction and development, or progressive change. This is, as we unders'and it, the object cf genuine re.igiou to place everything in that sphere of activity to which It belong that it uny fullil the olject for which it was created The demands de-mands of this law of jrogressl-e' motion cannot be violated w ithout I los-, which frtpiintl includes J dL-a-ter. J The demand made of man bj this I unalterable condition is that he ! shall use his mntal and rhy-Ical caiabihties for tho jiuriioses for j which tliey vcre eIdently intend ed This does not on!) inhibit mi : Use but likewise dormauci, there ' bung 110 economic feature in the ' latterUtc, cxe-cj t for the accumula f lion of necessary jotter and ivcu thenacliMty to attain that ead is ' Increased in some other direction If mankind vcre in accord with Ihes law violations of chastity would be extinct aud cue of the nio-t puteui aud natural arguments la support of an institution almo-t ui.ivcrsaH rejKidia eJ would be recognized Mentally or spirituallv mankind would be in active accord with the Divine or genuinely Chn-tlan economy, in contradistiiiellon to tint which i worldly , wlin h means 1 centrallzi t on of benefits whose possesion is inscribed vltiiin 1 brief since ef time. The ue of tile mental aud I hi 'teal eudow nicits to grasp after wealth because of the tran-itor; comforts it imparts to the accuuiu-1-tor is one cf the leading courses of 1 ur uit Absorption in the at taiumentofsucli anoljeet is against the divine economy on several groJuds it shows a groveling con ctptlon of the olject of life, throws tho icdiviJualout of balance by ex i-es-ive cult.vatiou iu one dire- Hon and t o.Jiiar.d.lvedorma'-ci 111 othi rs, and it aims at centra'izatiou of benefits', whereas the system of . which Christ 1- tiie e-cat exam 1 le . demands expau-Ion It is often tuecjse that jieople of a less worldii tum aro regarded as not being Ii. accord with the prinei-i!e prinei-i!e of economi, which in-eessarili 1 mbrat-es the ran ii'ion of iccumula tlon If tl circour-e of life indicates that tluy are laboring with rcfer-enc" rcfer-enc" to elemity, taking the immor tallty ofthesoulas afact,thi. will be found, in the ag-s to come, lo In tho only true economists among men, the nature of their accumala-tiuiis accumala-tiuiis ts-mg eternal Devotion to the pur-uitof knowledge and the produ tion of good among mankind, in the widest j radical area, is tin proccs of heaping eternal wealth, which cainot 1 en-h It is deerned remarkable that a 1 niuslderalle rroportion of the young I ioj le of the community are either j indllTerent to w hat is called "ilor monm' but .hich teaches the true rrinciplcs of individual audi coiiiiiiu.ial government oroiprsel it. fins is not surprising when it is taken into account tl at tint class of , the young have, as a rule, never! evonumizcd th Ir iwwers to comj re-hend re-hend the pnni iples of the system bv ' bringing them intoactivity -orae-( times circ-ani-tauie-a occur whicil break the sjiell of this s, iritual stagnation, the individual becomes a ue bein, aud -lvs things in 1 clearer aud broader lit,ht. This truth lias bet 11 exemplified by the cases of joung men called to go on mis-Ion-. who have had barely sufficient Iu terest or faith to respond That response, re-sponse, evi 1 when lang-ndl given, Ins led to further activity until the individual has. step l) 'tep, become converted to the nlorIous truths of tiiuttosjicl Indeed, this result i inevi'alle if pergonal nurity and spiritual activity are maintained The ton ersm that direction being economized by u-e,the j are enlarged by accumulation Intelligence cleaves lo intelligence" in-telligence" and truth to truth The laws which a just (Jod has placed for the government cf the universe are In con stout operation, ind their conditions areunc-riugaiid inevitable tveri eili rt made iu the line of true progress is seconded bi an adniin-t-irative assl-tat.ee given by the sjint uf Truth Kectitivitj and adminis'ralion are jarallel conditions condi-tions in the divine economy, the latter responding to the degree of activity cxi ting in the fi rnier. Hence, the legitimate condition of all intelligent things is that of work, hich iiiplles motion, w hich necessitates neces-sitates the cxi-tence of faith, without with-out which there is no existence |