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On maintaining a high ideal.

Saturday, January 16, 1875.

"Speaking generally, it will be found that whatever can be intelligently and conscientiously aimed at, can be attained. The aim itself is a prophecy and "shadow of a good thing to come".

The natural man and the spiritual man are not two divine formations, thrown together in one being at haphazard, and left to struggle and "lust against" each other, until one shall gain the victory. The deep underlying thought of the apostle evidently is that one is original, 

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organic, divine, - to be spiritually minded is life". The other is a misbegotten thing - a malformation - a spiritual disease tending to dissolution - "to be carnally-minded is death." Redemption - what is it, but the rising up of a human being to look upon his better self as it exists in the original thought of God.
Alexander Raleigh. 99"

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