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SPIRITUAL LIVING

does not desire that His children shall go out of the world, but only keep from its evils. It is right to show that He has not demanded impossibilities. It is, however, of secondary importance, and will be only incidentally alluded to. We will return to our main question of how to live a spiritual life in the world of to-day.

There is one great, central, heavenly principle which has the power, if applied, to unite human law and heavenly gospel, motive and deed, religion and daily life—the law by which men as well as angels may live, namely, the universal law of use or service.

In obedience to this law we find the answer to the question of the method (as well as the possibility) of living a spir-

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