THE PROMISE USED FOR THIS LIFE “Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.”—1 Tim. 4:8. A SORT of affectation prevents some Christians from treating religion as if its sphere lay among the common places of daily life. It is to them transcendental and dreamy; rather a creation of pious fiction than a matter of fact. They believe in God, after a fashion, for things spiritual, and for the life which is to be; but they totally forget