that if we asked in the right way all the things of the world would be subject to us. He said, "If you only believe, all is possible to the believer." And this man made good, he delivered the goods, he was a practical dreamer, a man who did things.

"The ideas that I have expressed to you are spirit and are life. . . . The Spirit is the lifegiver." Our life is an idea! A lot of thoughts that we are thinking is our “life!” “God is Spirit and those worshipping him must worship him in Spirit and in truth. . . . The ideas that I have expressed to you are Spirit." God is Spirit, the Great Idea, the Great Spirit, the Limitless Conception, the Universal Thought, the Creator and the Created, all that is is his idea, his Spirit!

We can have anything we ask for and there is everything in the Universe! What shall we ask for first? The instruction of the boy of Galilee regarding what is the first and most important thing to secure is definite and clear; and without the right guidance in our asking we are sure to go astray and not get the things that will make us happy.

So that there might not be any question in our minds as to the "things" to which he referred he specifically mentioned the grocery, the house rent and clothes problems. He said that, as important as they might seem to be, to take that part of life as incidental and that it would be cared for in lavish style, that the first, the important, basic, primal, requisite matter that should occupy our minds, our lives, our most serious attention was to "secure first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be ready," and he adds, "the Kingdom of God exists within yourselves."

Secure first the Kingdom of God within ourselves? Kingdom of God? Secure it? How? If the securing of this Kingdom of God and the right acting that comes with it will make all our desires real, make all our dreams come true, here is the very clue we are looking for! Here is the magic carpet, the Aladdin

lamp, the fairy wand that will make this a wonderful life indeed, a life in the land of a wonderful loving God.

When you have secured this Kingdom, made it your conscious daily life, "all these things will be ready for you!" Yes, that is always what "happens" when we first make a working connection between our outer, our objective consciousness and our subjective or spiritual mind, when we make the securing of the Kingdom of God the principal object of our daily life. That is surely what the wise, wonderful lad of Galilee told his friends. And he told them how to enter this beautiful land, this Kingdom of God where all our wishes are fulfilled-he told how to secure this consciousness of limitless Love and provision for every desire of our hearts.

And this is the way. "I give you a new command, that you love one another; just as I have loved you,

. . for I am gentle and kind-hearted. . . . My yoke is easy and my burden is light." Ask to be shown the way to be gentle and kind-hearted, the way to love one another as he did. Let the purpose of your life be to show this love in your work-every move of it every day and you will become a master of Life as he is. You are a master of life now but have not claimed your full mastery.

If the thing you are doing is not easy and the burden light, you may be sure that you are not acting according to the rules. Love on another, not one himself. "Gentle and kind-hearted, my way is easy and my burden light!" That sounds attractive and worth while! “Easy!" "Light!" "All these 'things' ready, ask and it will be given to you!" And all this time we have been having this struggle and strain! What is the use when the way is easy and the work light?

"If my teaching remains in you, what you may wish you shall ask for and it will come to you." What you may wish will come to you! Can this be really true?

Those are the words. What you may ask will come to you, be "ready" for you, if you first secure this Kingdom of God that is within you. Not once but many, many times this same statement. When you do obey this command that you love one another-if you do first secure the kingdom that is yours, when you do love in the way he directs, if his teaching does remain in you, then what you may wish will come to you. The power to make your desires appear comes to you with his teaching. This being true, to get at his teaching seems rather important.

In the meantime the Ever Loving One, the Gentle Father, is waiting for you to claim your own-waiting to give you what is yours now. The way is always open for you, on the above terms, to the land of happiness, and the fulfillment of your dreams.-M. W. Grier.

[All the quotations are from Ferrar Fenton's "New Testament in Modern English," which is an almost indispensable aid to anyone who wants to learn to control this Power of the Spirit that brings the Mastery.]

BIBLE STUDY

Seventh Day's Creation, as Given in Second Chapter of Genesis, According to the American Revised Bible: Its interpretation and Applica

tion in Individual Consciousness.

1. And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

The seventh day is the realization of fulfillment, resting in the consciousness that all that has been imaged in mind will come forth.

2. And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Divine Mind's plans were finished. All is finished first in consciousness, and Mind rests from further mental activities. The "rest" precedes the demonstration.

3. And God blessed the seventh day, and hal

lowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

To "hallow" the seventh day is to rest in the stillness, quiet and peace of the silence of Mind. "Hallow" means holiness. Holiness is resting in the conviction that there is no inharmony in the Absolute Law, which is the Law of God. One creates and makes first in Mind through properly relating ideas that enter into any proposition one desires to work out.

The seventh day is the Sabbath day, that is, it is the day of fulfillment and rest in consciousness. Every day, or step of mind unfoldment, is holy unto the Lord, but it is on the seventh day, or final step in realization, that one approaches the fulfillment of the ideal imaged in Mind.

LIVING WORDS

In response to a universal request we offer the following prayers, blessings and affirmations.

CHEERFULNESS AT THE TABLE

An old lady who looked as though she might have belonged to the "Sunshine Society" all her life was asked by a friend for the secret of her never-failing cheerfulness. Her answer contains a suggestion for parents.

"I think," said the clever old lady, "it is because we were taught in our family to be cheerful at table. My father was a lawyer with a large criminal practice; his mind was harassed with difficult problems all the day long; yet he always came to the table with a smile and a pleasant greeting for every one, and exerted himself to make the table hour delightful. All his powers were freely given to entertain his family.

"Three times a day we felt this genial influence, and the effect was marvelous. If a child came to the table with cross looks he or she was quietly sent away to find a good boy or girl, for only such were allowed to come within that loving circle. We were taught that all petty grievances and jealousies must be forgotten when

meal time came, and the habit of being cheerful three times a day under all circumstances, had its effect on even the most sullen temper.

"Much is said and written these days about 'table manners.' Children in well-bred families are drilled in. a knowledge of 'good form' as to the use of the fork and napkin; proper methods of eating the various courses are descanted upon, but training in the most important grace or habit a child must have, that of cheerfulness at table, is too often neglected.

"The Orientals had no family ties of affection until they began to eat at a common table. Let the gathering at meal time be made the most happy hour of the day, and the influence on the children may be beyond estimation.”—Table Talk.

TABLE BLESSINGS

Father, and Provider of every good, we thank thee for this food. We apply it in righteousness for the upbuilding of thy temple, our bodies, which we acknowledge as pure, blameless and holy in thy sight.-I. O. S.

Father in heaven, we ask thy blessing upon this food which has come to us from thee, the Source of all things. May it produce in us peace and harmony, and love toward all. In Jesus' name. Amen.-G. C. H.

Great Source of Blessedness! to thee again our grateful spirit ascends with thankfulness for this our daily bread. May it in transmutation carry thoughts of love and peace and joy to all! Amen.-G. C. H.

As we partake of the food before us let us remember that we give it the quality of our thought, and so eat in joy and thanksgiving that we may keep our temple whole and acceptable unto the Lord.-M.

Great Spirit of all good, as we come in contact with the divine energy through this food, may thy vitality re