Just here, however, may be a pitfall. If one fixes his attention on the idea that it is all growth, and he can't expect much anyway, he comes to an apparent standstill. The attention must be kept upon the Absolute, else there will be no growth. All things are already fulfilled; all is now perfect. It is the faithful affirmation of the perfect- denial of all less than the perfect that steadily moves the consciousness forward, into a realization of the perfect.

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The broader one's views are of the great work he is doing daily as a builder, the greater courage he will have to sustain him in his work, and the better work he will do. The foundation of the building is already laid, and it is so great that only the mind quickened by the Spirit can conceive of its dimensions. Every phase of temple-building receives more attention than the foundation. This should not be. If men realized that the foundation is already laid, they would study it and try to build upon it, instead of laying foundations of their own. The true foundation is prepared for a perfect, complete structure. Not one-third of a man, and not two-thirds of him is to be saved, but the whole man. Spirit, soul, and body are all to be built up together in this holy temple, and many a building falls because it doesn't fit the foundation. Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ, the perfect man.

Prophets of all ages have had glimpses of the earth and its people when both earth and people have been blessed through the redemptive work of Christ. Through man's true words the curse of evil is to be removed from the earth-is being removed and every living thing shall rejoice. To the one who believes surely in the triumph of Truth-in the establishment of Christ's kingdom throughout the earth there is an indescribable beauty and a soulquickening power in prophecies of old such as these:

"And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established

in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it." (Isaiah 2:2.)

"Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. Then shall the earth yield her increase." (Psalm 67:5, 6.)

"Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end." (Isaiah 9:6, 7.)

"The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing." (Isaiah 14:7.)

"In this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things. And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces." (Isaiah 25:6, 7, 8)

"Judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever. And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places." (Isaiah 32:16, 17, 18.)

"The redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away." (Isaiah 51:11.)

Sorrow and sighing shall flee away because that which causes them shall be put out of the earth by the mighty word of Truth. And every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God.

"The law of success is to expect success."

WHO ARE YOU?

JOSEPH R. CLARKSON.

What have you to say of yourself? How are you descended? Who is your father? Who is your mother? Who are your brethren? Whence have you your mind? Whence have you your body? Whose is your soul? whose your spirit? Where lie your strength, your health, your glory? Whence come your food, your shelter, your raiment? your descent according to the flesh, or according to the Spirit? Have you arisen and gone to your Father, and has your Father met you half way and fallen on your neck? What is your name?

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Have you taken the name of God in vain? Are you alive, or dead, or both? Where do you dwell, and who dwells in you? Are you in Christ Jesus, and has he broken down the "middle wall of partition " between him and you, and made in Himself, of twain, one new man? and are you that man, and in the peace and joy and glory of God? Are you complete in Christ? Have you put on Jesus Christ? Is your body the temple of the living God? Are you God's tabernacle? Is the Lord himself the portion of your inheritance?

Do you realize that you are changing from glory to glory through the working in you of the all-powerful Spirit of God, slowly but surely cleansing the leper, casting out the devils, healing the sick, raising the dead, quickening, making alive your mortal body, chastening, correcting, rebuking, scourging — preparing to raise up himself again when he has made you one with himself and frustrated all the efforts of the accuser of man before God to put him out whom God would exalt? Has it in your case, as in the case of St. Paul, pleased God to reveal his Son in you, and have you ceased to confer with flesh and blood? Do you know that you are one with God your Father, God your Saviour, and God your Holy

Spirit? Are you what you are-God and Man, and Man and God-in and by and through and with your Redeemer, Jesus Christ? Have you the Son? Is there a Son born unto you?

If you have the Son, you have overcome; the last enemy, death, has been destroyed; the Church is triumphant. "He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son of God hath not life."

"I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me." If you have not the Son, you should have him. If you have not the Son, you will have him when you awake in his likeness and know yourself.

Had Adam chosen to forego knowledge of evil his stay on earth would have been a continuous advancement towards a higher plane of existence, and his departure would have been after the manner of Enoch, or Elijah, or Jesus when he ascended. All experience for Adam would have been an increase of life. He would have had no knowledge of death or its precursors-sin, sickness, suffering. His walk, though his feet were on earth, would have been with God. His talk, his daily talk, would have been with God. His eyes would have feasted, and continued to feast, upon God. He went to sleep. He became a dreamer. His vision, his hearing, doubled. His senses were distorted. He seemed to himself a

mixture of good and evil.

He wove for himself and

his descendants a veil which obscured the light of God's presence -hid God's face. He seemed sepa

rated from God an alien, an outcast, a thing to perish, instead of a living soul. He was "full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness"; he was feeding swine, and himself living on husks, because he had left his Father's house.

We know the course of the first man Adam: tempest and calm, darkness and light, shadow and sunshine, cold and heat, night and day, famine and plenty, sickness and health, suffering and respite, evil and good, despair and hope, death and life

always, seemingly - though helped by prophets, priests, judges, kings; though given, through flood and fire, through miracle and sign, through heavenly food, through face of earth renewed, chance to regain his former self-in his rebellion, his perverseness, his obtuseness, putting a wider and wider gulf between him and his Father-God. The man of the earth, the man of flesh and blood, the sinner, the wicked man, the man who spurned his birthright, was lost, unless his God should come to him. His God came, and came to save. His God came, and came as Life. His God came, and came as Love. His God came, and came as Purity. His God came, and came as Power and Wisdom infinite, as Mercy and Spirit and Truth.

His God came as a destroyer of all evil, a sweeping destruction of destruction, an engulfer of hell and the pit, a killer of death, a despiser of grave and tomb. His God came to let the prisoner go free, to bind up the broken-hearted, to heal the sick, to raise the dead, to feed the starving, to lead captivity captive.

His God came to make of mankind, and all "sorts and conditions" of mankind, one great and glorious Being, greater and more glorious than was man original. Man original was the image and likeness of God. Man redeemed, wholly saved, reconciled to God, given Sonship, is one great, spiritual, intellectual and bodily glory, "joint heir of God with Christ," "hid with Christ in God"- God-Man and Man-God.

The only difference today between Man and God, if men will avail themselves of what God has given and has done for them, and is giving and is doing for them, if men "will accept the cup of salvation" and take unto themselves the body and blood and mind and spirit of Christ Jesus, deport themselves as sons of God should, and as they really praying for it God will give them power to, is that Christ is the "first fruits of them that slept," and, with