it is understood to mean mere duration of being—the persistency of life notwithstanding the fact of physical death. In the teaching of Jesus Christ, as in the apostolic writings, the eternal life imparted by Christ to all who believe in Him, is indeed a term implying endlessness of life, but, since endlessness is also a quality of mere human life, eternal life is, far more emphatically, a term of quality, of kind. The ministry of John the Baptist also had its startling message, “And now also the