June 25th.  Let us look for the influence of Environment on the spiritual nature of him who has opened correspondence with God.  Reaching out his eager and quickened faculties to the spiritual world around him, shall he not become spiritual?  In vital contact with Holiness, shall he not become holy?  Breathing now an atmosphere of ineffable Purity, shall he miss becoming pure?  Walking with God from day to day, shall he fail to be taught of God?  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 242.

June 26th.  Growth in grace is sometimes described as a strange, mystical, and unintelligible process.  It is mystical, but neither strange nor unintelligible.  It proceeds according to Natural Law, and the leading factor in sanctification is Influence of Environment.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 242.

June 27th.  Will the evolutionist who admits the regeneration of the frog under the modifying influence of a continued correspondence with a new environment, care to question the possibility of the soul acquiring such a faculty as that of Prayer, the marvellous breathing-function of the new creature, when in contact with the atmosphere of a besetting God?  Is the change from the earthly to the heavenly more mysterious than the change from the aquatic to the terrestrial mode of life?  Is Evolution to stop with the organic?  If it be objected that it has taken ages to perfect the function in the batrachian, the reply is, that it will take ages to perfect the function in the Christian.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 244.

June 28th.  We have indeed spoken of the spiritual correspondence as already perfect—­but it is perfect only as the bud is perfect.  “It doth not yet appear what it shall be,” any more than it appeared a million years ago what the evolving batrachian would be.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 244.

June 29th.  In a sense, all that belongs to Time belongs also to Eternity; but these lower correspondences are in their nature unfitted for an Eternal Life.  Even if they were perfect in their relation to their Environment, they would still not be Eternal. . . .  An Eternal Life demands an Eternal Environment.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 245.

June 30th.  The final preparation . . . for the inheriting of Eternal Life must consist in the abandonment of the non-eternal elements.  These must be unloosed and dissociated from the higher elements, And this is effected by a closing catastrophe—­Death.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 248.

July 1st.  “Perfect correspondence,” according to Mr. Herbert Spencer, would be “perfect Life.”  To abolish Death, therefore, all that would be necessary would be to abolish Imperfection.  But it is the claim of Christianity that it can abolish Death.  And it is significant to notice that it does so by meeting this very demand of Science—­it abolishes Imperfection.  Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 249.