them is to be them, and to be them is to show forth only them. The multiplication table came to you in love; you loved to study it. It came to you in peace; you went into the silent school room or corner to seek it. It came to you in joy, for your being was happy in acquiring it. Health and prosperity comes to you from power in the same manner through love, joy, peace. You must have love, joy, peace in you before you can show health and prosperity, the same as you must have the multiplication table in you before you can speak forth the science of numbers.

Power directed through love, peace, joy, ennobles the race and elevates mankind. Under its influence the earth bursts forth in fruit, the oceans roll in magnificence, while our constellated canopy reveals to us its mysteries. This is life eternal. "Seek ye

first Wisdom," that is, Love, Peace, Joy, and Health and Prosperity are added to it. Misdirected love is hate; misdirected peace is war; misdirected joy is grief; and to the getting of these is added all sickness and adversity.

THE SON OF GOD.

SARAH ELIZABETH GRISWOLD.

We are slow to realize that this Son-ship is a plane of consciousness, a focalizing of the Law, Divine Principle, or God.

Christ Jesus focalized, or brought into manifestation, God, the Father, or Origin, and there are students of truth (?) this day who are carefully discriminating concerning this One who has shown them the Father, lest too much honor be ascribed to Him.

We cannot know God except through that Mind which was in Christ Jesus. If you have one glimpse of actual truth it came to you through that Mind which manifested in the personality called "Jesus the Christ.' That unconditioned Mind, called "Divine Consciousness," is "the Only Begotten Son of

God." It is thus named because It is the only avenue to the God-Wisdom.

"No man cometh unto the Father but by Me."

"Me" is described in St. John 14:30, viz.: "Hereafter I will not talk much with you: the prince of the world (worldliness) cometh and hath nothing in Me." Pure consciousness cannot be phased by any form of worldliness. Now read again, “No man cometh unto the Father but by Me." This Consciousness (Me) embodied in Christ Jesus is the Only Begotten Son of God, and except it shine in you, you will remain in darkness forever. It is the allknowing, all-loving, all-forgiving, and sinless One; the "Me," without whom no man shall know God. It is the Teacher sent from God unto all men.

I have been speaking to you of the manifested God. Look now to the unmanifest, the Eternal Law, beginningless, endless, changeless. It is no more concerned with one man than with another, except as one, more than another, consciously enters Its service. This Eternal Law will abide without your service, yet It ordains that you shall serve It, that It may the better serve you. It forever gives, and it is for you to forever turn to It your face, and hold to It your hands, that It may give to you effectually.

Now turn again to the manifest. "Before the world was, I am." Christ Jesus makes this statement concerning his divine personality, which is eternal, and I believe that he had become conscious of his eternity of Being before this earth was formed. I mean to say, that he was ready, prepared, to call this world his own, and the people who should manifest according, to eternal law, his people. Read in St. John's gospel 1:10-14:

"He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

"He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the Sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

"Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."

Now, my interpretation is this: Ages upon ages. ago, Jesus, who was to become Christ, consciously turned toward the Divine Law-Our Father which is in heaven, or eternal peace-and offered his loving service; yea, "even before the world was," and in process of time became the "Son of God" in consciousness. Having been faithful over a few things (Matt. 25: 21) he was chosen by the Law to be ruler over even this world in which we live.

If the reader can accept this interpretation as true, it will readily be understood why Jesus came into manifestation among the people who were his own - into a world which by the grace of God was his own, to be an eternal demonstration of truth, of redeeming love, of forgiveness of sin, of everlasting life, to all people forever more. He understood the process of Divine Law, of unconscious evolution, and again, of conscious evolution. He knew that his people, on the verge of conscious evolution, must have a teacher to steady their faltering steps towards an impulse for righteousness, just as in the unthinkable past he had been guided by some High Priest of the Eternal Law, to know, and love, and serve It; and who shall compute his love for the unfolding souls to whom he had been committed as both father and mother by the wisdom of God?

Do you know the meaning of mother-love? Do you know that all suffering is counted for naught, that the well-being of each child may be achieved? If you do know even to the extent of human experience, then be assured that it is only a faint shadow of that matchless God-love which was born into Jesus Christ by the indwelling Father of all men, and which alone actuated his mission in the world; and there are minds so darkened that they cannot

see God in all this, and must needs try to rob the Divine Humanity demonstrated by Jesus the Christ for all time of its God-begotten glory; must cast lots for the radiant garments of the transfigured Christ, and vainly strive to climb up some other way, of whom it is written, "the same is a thief and a robber."

There is a reason for all this skepticism. The literal interpretation of Scripture has discouraged those who are seeking truth, and they are fain to swing to the other extreme and will have none of it. Now the sad result is, that many of them teach the people after the fashion of their own skepticism. This is a great mistake, for so sure as these zealous ones are true seekers after truth, they will (when meek enough) have the feet of their understanding washed by Truth Itself, and the Scripture opened to them by the Spirit on their "Day of Pentecost";. and then what of those to whom they, in their mistaken zeal (like Paul or Saul), have preached a lie?

Oh, it is so sad to see the mistakes made by the impulse of enthusiasm instead of using the Word of God! Read what is written about mistaken zeal in St. John 2:17, II. Cor. 9:2, Phil. 3:6, and if you cannot yet interpret the Scripture as to its spirit, be patient and remember that spiritual things are spiritually discerned. You will "get there" as soon as the Christ Mind shines ever so little into your conscious

ness.

Watch and pray, for ye know not the hour wherein the Bridegroom may knock at the door of your understanding. Be ready. Be meek. Be true. And may the kingdom, and the power, and the glory be manifest in His Name. Amen.

The soul which is not moved,

The soul that with a strong and constant calm
Takes sorrow and takes joy indifferently,
Lives in the life undying! That which is
Can never cease to be; that which is not

Will not exist.

-The Song Celestial.

THE POWER OF STILLNESS.

Be still, and know that I am God.-Psa. 46:10.

It was "a still small voice" or "the sound of a gentle stillness." Is there any note of music in all the chorus as mighty as the emphatic pause? Is there any word in all the Psalter more eloquent than that one word, Selah (Pause)? Is there anything more thrilling and awful than the hush that comes before the bursting of the tempest, and the strange. quiet that seems to fall upon all nature before some preternatural phenomenon or convulsion? Is there anything that can so touch our hearts as THE POWER OF STILLNESS?

The sweetest blessings that Christ brings us is the Sabbath rest of the soul, of which the Sabbath of creation was the type, and the Land of Promise God's great object lesson. There is for the heart that will cease from itself, "the peace of God that passeth all understanding," "a quietness and confidence" which is the source of all strengh, a sweet peace "which nothing can offend," "a deep rest which the world can neither give nor take away." There is in the deepest centre of the soul a chamber of peace where God dwells, and where if we will only enter in and hush every other sound, we can hear His still, small voice.

There is in the swiftest wheel that revolves upon its axis a place in the very centre where there is no movement at all; and so in the busiest life there may be a place where we dwell alone with God in eternal stillness.

This is the only way to know God. "Be Still, and know that I am God." "God is in His Holy Temple; let all the earth keep silence before Him."

A score of years ago, a friend placed in my hand a little book which became one of the turning points of my life. It was called "True Peace." It was an old mediæval message, and it had but one thought,