If God is ever-present, He is neither absent from Himself nor from the universe. Without Him, the universe would collapse, and space, substance, and immortality be lost. Saint Paul says: “And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain ; ye are yet in your sins” (1 Corinthians xv. 17). Christ can not come to mortal and material sense, which sees not God. This false sense must yield to His eternal presence, and so disappear. Rising above the false, to the true evidence of Life, is the resur- rection that takes hold of eternal Truth. Coming and going belong to mortal consciousness. God is “the same, yesterday, today, and forever.”
To material sense, Jesus first appeared as a helpless human babe; but to immortal and spiritual vision he was one with the Father, even the eternal idea of God, that was — and is — neither young nor old, neither dead nor risen. The mutations of mortal sense are the evening and the morning of human thought, — the twilight and dawn of earthly vision, which precedeth the nightless radiance of Divine Life. Human perception, advancing toward the apprehension of the unchangeable God, halts, retreats, and again goes forward; but the Divine
