glorious New Life, taking for our starting-point the apostolic words, "there is now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus" [Rom. 8:1 --- Ed.]. We have now consciously left all condemnation behind us, and we set forward on our New Life with the self-obvious maxim that "if God be for us, who can be against us?" [Rom. 8:31 --- Ed] We may meet with opposition, but there is with us a Power and an Intelligence which no opposition can overcome, and so we become "more than conquerors through Him that loved us" (Rom. 8:37).

This is the nature of the Great Suggestion wrought out by Jesus; so that here again we find that the acceptance of the Great Sacrifice gives rise to the consciousness of a peculiarly close and endearing relation between the Individual and the Universal Mind, which may well be described as an Everlasting Covenant because it is founded not on any favouritism on the part of God, neither on any deeds of merit on the part of Man, but on the accurate working of Universal Law when realised in the higher manifestations of Individualism; and so it is truly written, "by his Knowledge shall My righteous servant justify many" [Is. 53:11 --- Ed.]. Thus it is that Jesus completes the work of Moses in building up into a peculiar people, a chosen generation, "the People of the I AM" (1 Peter 2:9).

Blood-Line and Inheritance

It was this conception of themselves as a chosen nation, separate from all others and united to God