into life everlasting, and the wicked into everlasting punishment."
There is no death! What seems so is transition.
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life elysian
Whose portal we call death.
— Longfellow, Resignation.
V. History, not Legend
I. PAGANS thought out for themselves many things concerning the being of God, and then related their imaginings as if they were facts. Such imaginings may be counted by hundreds. But since the world began, no man has ever imagined, in the remotest manner, that the charity of a God could go so far as to lead Him to appear among men in the form of a man, and for their happiness and salvation to deliver Himself up to death. However, this marvel of divine love which it never entered into the heart of man to conceive, and which is sufficient to astonish heaven and earth, found its accomplishment in the only true religion, which is the Christian. "God s$ loved the world, as to send His only begotten Son into the world." Such is the voice which for more than nineteen hundred years has echoed throughout the universe.
Jesus Christ is the name of the only begotten Son of God, who was sent into the world; He in very deed lived and labored in the
