"passing out" or dying process in it. And teachers of Life are beginning to be in demand.

In all the offers of consolation in bereavement that are offered, how often is the resurrection mentioned as comfort? Seldom. Yet that was Jesus' way of comforting. Error never comforts; it may deaden grief so that it is not felt so much for a time, but only Truth can give joy for sorrow; only the resurrection can give comfort for death.

Yes, we can think the thoughts and speak the words that will bring about the resurrection. The whole creation is to hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live. The Sons of God are now coming into manifestation. They obey the words of Jesus, "Let the dead bury their dead." They do not go to funerals, and offer false consolation, thus dulling their own and others idea of life through exaltation of death; but they dwell as much as possible in exaltation of life and when they do get ready to attend funerals, they will go for the purpose of fulfilling the command to restore the dead one to life and friends, and they will do it. That will be consolation worth while.

"The works that I do shall ye do also."

Every one who has been laid in the grave will be resurrected, and those who are laying hold faithfully of the resurrection life will never go to the grave. True, some who have sought earnestly to be delivered from death and the grave have not been able to receive their deliverance. (Jesus told us some would seek to enter into this life, and would not be able.) They were not able because they had not sufficient understanding to make the demonstration. But nothing is ever lost, and all the progress made by these who seemingly failed, prepares them to be the first who will prove the glories of the resurrection. These apparent failures are the world's greatest heroes, and they shall sometime be honored as such. They

shall have the honor that loyalty to Truth gives.

'The soul that sinneth it shall die." What is the truth of this scripture?-C. F.

This statement is found in the Bible, and comes in for its share of men's disapproval. The objection to it seems to arise from the belief that when the soul dies it is annihilated, and this belief comes from ignoring the resurrection.

The soul that sins does die. The wages of sin is death. It is proved all about us every day. Humanity is, and has been for ages, sweeping on out to the grave, and the force that is carrying them out is thought, error thought.

Sin isn't always murder and theft, and like wickedness; it is any falling short of Absolute Truth. Every error thought is therefore sin and has its tendency toward the wages of sin.

Chief amongst the error thoughts that are carrying men to the grave is the belief that death is inevitable; and out of this have come other thoughts of error which spring mainly from man's desire to comfort himself in what he believes cannot be avoided. So he has built up "mansions in the skies" and a "home over there" to help him yield gracefully to the inevitable. Or he talks about death as the entrance to a new, full, free life, where opportunity is so much greater than here.

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Jesus came and spoke the Word to arrest this tide of error thought. He taught the resurrection. said, not on, but up. Life eternal is to be found, not by going on but by going up - up above the error thoughts that are sweeping men into the grave, and up into that consciousness of abundant everywherepresent life into which no appearance of death can

enter.

Jesus did not go the way of the world. He was raised up whole and complete. To follow him is to look up and go up, and not on nor out. Whichever way one looks, he goes. If he is looking to the grave as his door to life, it is only a question of time when he goes that way. But if he, in faith, lifts up his eyes. to the risen Christ, he will rise with Christ into newness of life.

Putting on the new resurrection life is a matter of daily growth, and depends much upon the steadfastness with which the eyes are kept raised to the living One who was lifted up that he might draw all men to him — not up into the skies, but up into his consciousness of life. If the gaze drops down to the grave as the way into the promised land, the whole consciousness is lowered, and victory over the grave will not be gained until the gaze upward becomes steadfast. We become like that which we behold. By beholding not a dead Christ, but a risen Christ, we are changed into the same image. We are renewed daily until mind and body are transformed into the likeness of Truth, and appear as they are in Spirit and in Truth.

"I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.”

THE TYRANT OF DUMB ANIMALS

Man was born to live with innocence and simplicty, but he has deviated from nature; he was born to share the bounties of heaven, but he has monopolized them; he was born to govern the brute creation, but he is become their tyrant. If an epicure now shall happen to surfeit on his last night's feast, twenty animals the next day are to undergo the most exquisite tortures, in order to provoke his appetite to another guilty weal. Oliver Goldsmith.

It was my thought when asked to lead this meeting to let the season suggest the topic-Thanksgiving. As we have already had a meeting devoted to this subject, I decided to deal briefly with what seems to me God's greatest gift-life. Life is a mystery. When we ask what it is, our only answer is that we do not know. When we ask where it comes from, again we must say that we cannot tell. When loved ones pass from our view and we see them no more, and wonder where the life which held them here has gone, once more we repeat that we do not know. There must be something very sacred in a gift, the knowledge of which God has kept so exclusively to himself, that neither men nor angels can tell us anything about. Life is God's gift. No one else can give it to us.

When a gift is received, the first question which arises is, What shall I do with it? If it is something to eat or to wear, we can easily decide the question. When we ask the question, What shall I do with life? we stand face to face with our greatest problem. There are three institutions which have been established to teach us what to do with life- the home, the school and the church. With the school I would include industrial, commercial and social interests as essential factors in our development. These institutions are familiar to all, and I need not here take the time to describe or criticise them. It is essential, however, that we should have a basis of judgment by which to determine how well these institutions perform their functions. Why have they been established?

What is God's purpose? In the last verse of the fifth chapter of Matthew, Jesus says, "Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect - thus indicating a perfect humanity as the object of God's creative work, at least from the human viewpoint. This means that the tendency of our lives should be consciously toward perfection; today better in all respects than yesterday; no thought, nor act, nor work satisfying our ideal unless improvement is shown. Where the established means for attaining this end are defective through weakness, or dishonesty, or ignorance, it should be our supreme duty to improve them in every way that we can.

In addition to these formal methods of human development, we have access to God, and may learn the way of life more perfectly from the presence of his spirit in our consciousness. This is the true source of instruction; this is the channel through which the life more abundant comes to us. Its presence leaves no room for disease, or doubt, or weakness; we become the Sons of God, and inherit all things. There is a beautiful thought suggested by one of the Bible Lessons a few weeks ago. It will be remembered that during the journey of the children of Israel in the wilderness, they were guided during the day by a pillar of cloud, and by night by a pillar of fire. The pillar of cloud is said to symbolize our thoughts, or our consciousness; and the pillar of fire, the spirit of Truth. To the more precise, I would say that the pillar of cloud symbolizes the thoughts or mental determinations by which our lives are guided. In the common needs and experiences of life when it is daylight—

these may suffice for our safety. But when the night comes the season of perplexity, of sorrow, of grief, of failure, of despair, and the cloud gives us no light, then the spirit of Truth, our pillar of fire, casts its radiant beams into the darkness, and the way is clear.

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