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Unfoldment, or extension, suggests the need of more room. A tree must have greater space and fuller environment than a seed. Even so does education broaden man's understanding and enlarge his knowledge of all things.

We are not surprised to find in the seed-time of the world small conceptions and belittling views of God, hence of man and of the world. A limited belief of God, the Creator and Source of all, must result in a contracted thought of creation, a thought that might have been large enough for the seed, or beginning, but one that will not satisfy the needs of fuller understanding.

"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child but when I became a man, I put away childish things."

A child, in the process of its education, passes from grade to grade in the school. In the higher grades it should not think and speak as it did in the first. Even as a child grows, so has grown the race. It cannot always think and speak as at first.

Throughout the ancient writings, we have messages from students in first, second, third and fourth "grades" --- even unto the highest. We find in these writings the lispings of babes and the utterances of manhood. "The first man (infant or first view of man) is of the earth earthy; the second man (larger understanding of man) is the Lord from heaven.

"All this development is from the perfect seed