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kingdom of God in the sense of a life in Heaven above, we ought to take it, as its speaker means it, in the sense of the reign of saints, a renovated and perfected human society on earth,--the ideal society of the future.
In the life of such a society, in the life from above, the life born of inspiration or the spirit--in that life elevation and beauty are not everything; but they are much, and they are indispensable.
Humanity cannot reach its ideal while it lacks them, “Except a man be born from above, he cannot have part in the society of the future.”
Boston. De Wolfe, Fiske &c Co. 361 and 365 Washington Street. 1888.
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