June 11th.  The relation between the spiritual man and his Environment is, in theological language, a filial relation.  With the new Spirit, the filial correspondence, he knows the Father—­and this is Life Eternal.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 229.

June 12th.  It takes the Divine to know the Divine—­but in no more mysterious sense than it takes the human to understand the human.  The analogy, indeed, for the whole field here has been finely expressed already by Paul:  “What man,” he asks, “knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?  Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.”—­I.  Cor. ii. 11, 12.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 229.

June 13th.  To go outside what we call Nature is not to go outside Environment.  Nature, the natural Environment, is only a part of Environment.  There is another large part, which, though some profess to have no correspondence with it, is not on that account unreal, or even unnatural.  The mental and moral world is unknown to the plant.  But it is real.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 232.

June 14th.  Things are natural or supernatural simply according to where one stands.  Man is supernatural to the mineral; God is supernatural to the man.  When a mineral is seized upon by the living plant and elevated to the organic kingdom, no trespass against Nature is committed.  It merely enters a larger Environment, which before was supernatural to it, but which now is entirely natural.  When the heart of a man, again, is seized upon by the quickening Spirit of God, no further violence is done to natural law.  It is another case of the inorganic, so to speak, passing into the organic.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 232.

June 15th.  Correspondence in any case is the gift of Environment.  The natural Environment gives men their natural faculties; the spiritual affords them their spiritual faculties.  It is natural for the spiritual Environment to supply the spiritual faculties; it would be quite unnatural for the natural Environment to do it.  The natural law of Bio-genesis forbids it; the moral fact that the finite cannot comprehend the Infinite is against it; the spiritual principle that flesh and blood, cannot inherit the Kingdom of God renders it absurd.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 233.

June 16th.  Organisms are not added to by accretion, as in the case of minerals, but by growth.  And the spiritual faculties are organized in the spiritual protoplasm of the soul, just as other faculties are organized in the protoplasm of the body.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 233.

June 17th.  It ought to be placed in the forefront of all Christian teaching that Christ’s mission on earth was to give men Life.  “I am come,” He said, “that ye might have Life, and that ye might have it more abundantly.”  And that He meant literal Life, literal spiritual and Eternal Life, is clear from the whole course of His teaching and acting.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 235.