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Immortal birthright

Mortal man is really a self-contradictory phrase, for man is not mortal, "neither indeed can be;" man is im-

mortal. If a child is the offspring of physical sense and not of Soul, the child must have a material, not a spirit- ual origin. With what truth, then, could the Scriptural rejoicing be uttered by any mother, "I have gotten a man from the Lord"? On the con- trary, if aught comes from God, it cannot be mortal and material; it must be immortal and spiritual.