June 5th.  Uninterrupted correspondence with a perfect Environment is Eternal Life, according to Science.  “This is Life Eternal,” said Christ, “that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.”  Life Eternal is to know God.  To know God is to “correspond” with God.  To correspond with God is to correspond with a Perfect Environment.  And the organism which attains to this, in the nature of things, must live forever.  Here is “eternal existence and eternal knowledge.”  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 215.

June 6th.  To find a new Environment again and cultivate relation with it is to find a new Life.  To live is to correspond, and to correspond is to live.  So much is true in Science.  But it is also true in Religion.  And it is of great importance to observe that to Religion also the conception of Life is a correspondence.  No truth of Christianity has been more ignorantly or wilfully travestied than the doctrine of Immortality.  The popular idea, in spite of a hundred protests, is that Eternal Life is to live forever. . . .  We are told that Life Eternal is not to live.  This is Life Eternal—­to know.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 216.

June 7th.  From time to time the taunt is thrown at Religion, not unseldom from lips which Science ought to have taught more caution, that the Future Life of Christianity is simply a prolonged existence, an eternal monotony, a blind and indefinite continuance of being.  The Bible never could commit itself to any such empty platitude; nor could Christianity ever offer to the world a hope so colourless.  Not that Eternal Life has nothing to do with everlastingness.  That is part of the conception.  And it is this aspect of the question that first arrests us in the field of Science.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 216.

June 8th.  Science speaks to us indeed of much more than numbers of years.  It defines degrees of Life.  It explains a widening Environment.  It unfolds the relation between a widening Environment and increasing complexity in organisms.  And if it has no absolute contribution to the content of Religion, its analogies are not limited to a point.  It yields to Immortality, and this is the most that Science can do in any case, the broad framework for a doctrine.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 217.

June 9th.  To correspond with the God of Science, the Eternal Unknowable, would be everlasting existence; to correspond with “the true God and Jesus Christ,” is Eternal Life.  The quality of the Eternal Life alone makes the heaven; mere everlastingness might be no boon.  Even the brief span of the temporal life is too long for those who spend its years in sorrow.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 220.

June 10th.  To Christianity, “he that hath the Son of God hath Life, and he that hath not the Son hath not Life.”  This, as we take it, defines the correspondence which is to bridge the grave.  This is the clue to the nature of the Life that lies at the back of the spiritual organism.  And this is the true solution of the mystery of Eternal Life.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 227.