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have their being; and the generations of the world were healthful; and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death upon the earth.

"For righteousness is immortal; but ungodly men, with their works and words, called death to them."

Thus spoke that wise man Solomon. He knew that God did not make death, and that He had no pleasure in the destruction of the living. All things that God made are living realities, and the things He did not make have no real existence, though they may seem to have it. They are myths, chimeras, figments of the brain, illusions of a sick mind. Therefore the sane man must brush them aside in order to see the clear vision of the world.

Why did God make men? Not that they might glorify Him, for He needed no added glory, being Perfection and having glory in its fulness. No, He made men and all things, simply that they might have their being. To this end He made them healthful, or in His image; and He placed in them no poison of destruction that would produce sickness, nor did He institute death in the order of creation. As Solomon said — men have called death to them, or brought it upon themselves. God gave of His own Substance to make man, and that Substance being righteousness is immortal.

God made you and me that we might have being that is without the poison of destruction. Then away with the miasmic unbelief that declares