Article November 14, 1908 Issue

SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION

C. W. CROCKETT.

We are told that "the fossil forest of the Yellowstone Park is a mountain composed of layers of a greenish sandstone, containing the trunks of silicified trees," and that "shells, bones, corals, etc., after fossilization have in almost all cases lost at least the animal matter they contained. Wood is often changed to quartz or limestone." In explanation of some of these transformations it has been stated that when a piece of wood is immersed in a silicious hot spring, the organic matter gradually decays and is replaced by the mineral, until finally the change into a stone is complete, though the wood still retains all the detail of its original structure.

Does not all this illustrate the great change that is taking place in us? As we grow in the knowledge of the allness of God our conception of our own being becomes more and more spiritual, and the material fades away, until finally we shall realize that we are not in any respect material, but spiritual, the perfect thought of the perfect Mind. Paul says, "For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory."

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