It was not at all what is usually considered a popular sermon, though of a kind more likely to be popular than is often supposed. The text was,— “Because I live, ye shall live also.” “Very many men,” said the preacher, “have tried to define life, just as they have endeavored to explain what is meant by a personal God, and with about the same success. Our own first Article says, ‘There is but one living and true God, everlasting, without body, parts, or passions.’ This is not all of the article, as you will see from your prayer-books, but it is the root-part, which contains and implies all the rest. And you will notice that most of this one sentence that I have read you says what God is _not_; there are only two words, ‘living’ (which implies everlasting), and ‘true,’ to tell us what God _is_. But this, that He is living and true, nay, that He is life and truth, is really all that we need to know about Him. Well, then, I hope some of us are asking, What do we mean by life, and what do we mean by truth? Let us take the latter first. “Truth is that which a man troweth or believeth; a better definition than one might suppose; but there is another word which will lead us more quickly to the heart of our subject this morning. ‘In sooth’ and in ‘good sooth’ are phrases now found only in poetry; yet we could very well spare from our daily conversation more sonorous terms than that one little monosyllable sooth. For it is connected with the Sanskrit word _sat_, or _satya_, meaning truth; _sat_ being the participle of the verb _as_, to be. Therefore, when we say, ‘Do you in sooth?’ we mean simply, ‘Do you tell me that which _is_?’ “Now, I once read a book, the author of which was very jubilant over his discovery that this verb _as_, to be, meant originally, simply, to breathe. Thus, if we go back a step farther, and say, ‘Do you in sooth?’ or, ‘Do you tell me that which breathes?’ we shall not be long in coming to the conclusion that Truth and Life are identical; and that What is Truth? means exactly the same as What is Life?