the Holy Spirit, higher in the infinite glory of God.

This present dispensation is "of the Spirit: for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life." Quoting further from St. Paul. "But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory."

Referring to the children of Israel" But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."

if

Changed from glory into glory,

Till in heaven we find our place,
Till we cast our crowns before thee,
Lost in wonder, love, and praise."

Who are you?

If you have been baptized in the name of the Triune God; if you have been baptized into the body of Christ Jesus; if the Holy Spirit of God has come to you and taken up his permanent abode in you; you have eaten of the flesh and drunk of the blood of Christ, have been partaker of his body and been made one with his body; if you dwell in him and he in you; if you are one with him as he is one with the Father; if you live because he lives, and he lives because God lives is Life-who are you?

The Son of God, or the son of the devil? The Son

of Truth, or the son of the liar and the father of lies? The Son of Life, or the son of death? The Son of Health, or the son of sickness? The Son of Strength, or the son of weakness? The Son of Love, or the son of hate? The Son of Wisdom, or the son of foolishness? Will you enter the kingdom by the way of Jesus Christ- the straight and narrow way, the door of the fold, the way of Life or will you enter by the broad way, the way of destruction? Choose; because you have your choice.

YOUR WORK.

ARTHUR P. BUCK.

There's a work in the world to be done today,
A work that is grand and true,

And the duties each moment may place in your way
Make up the grand work, and you may not delay;
For though humble thy task, 'tis divine, and, I say,
It cannot be done but by you.

The work may be humble I find to my hand;
Unpleasant the task may be;

Far, far it may differ from what I had planned,
And why it is so I may not understand;

But 'tis part of life's work, and is noble and grand,
And is waiting for none but for me.

Each task has its lesson and is for our gain,
And 'tis best we learn each in its turn;

For each lesson not mastered is given again,
And tasks that are slighted, in sorrow or pain
Enforce our attention; we slight them in vain.
Till mastered, they'll always return.

The lesson hard learned is remembered the best,
Or history, problem, or rule.

And some I recall, on my mind firm impressed,
That stand out alone, quite distinct from the rest.
That were learned on compulsion, it must be confessed,
While staying awhile after school.

In the high school of life, where the teacher is God,
Whatever the lesson may be,

From the day of my birth till I'm under the sod
My spirit gains light through this physical clod.
Th gh I reign o'er an empire or carry a hod,
Each event has its lesson for me.

And in the few days or the eons that roll,

Though at times I seem under the red,"
The knowledge of Truth shall uncover my soul
Till, selfless, I know myself part of the whole.
And, painful or pleasant, each step toward the goal
Is a sum" in my schooling from God.

BIBLE LESSONS

.by Charles Fillmore.

(Texts from the Revised Version.)

Lesson 7. May 19.

ISRAEL ENSLAVED IN EGYPT.-Exodus 1:1-14.

I.

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, that came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

2.

3. Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

4. Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

5. And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were 'seventy souls: and Joseph was in Egypt already.

6. And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

7. And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

8. Now there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph.

9. And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:

ΙΟ. Come, let us deal wisely with them: lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.

II.

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store

cities, Pithom and Raamses.

12. But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

13. And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:

14. And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigour.

GOLDEN TEXT - Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. —Psalm 107:13.

Canaan means low country, and Egypt fortified land. They represent to the metaphysician two phases of substance in consciousness. Canaan is the invisible substance that surrounds and interpenetrates all bodies, and Egypt is the visible or solid form perceived by the outer senses. Canaan is the “Promised Land" because it is not bound by the limitations of material consciousness. It is invaded by alien tribes, but they are to be

driven out when the real owners come into their inheritance.

The faculties of the mind, represented by the sons of Jacob, inhabit first the invisible substance. then the visible. This is the way the mind makes that wonderful musician, the soul, and its instrument, the body. Thoughts are first manifest in the invisible substance, then projected into the visible.

When man is ignorant of the laws of creation, and the powers of his mind, he naturally gravitates to a material base of thought and act. Of the sons of Jacob but one, Joseph (the imagination), had knowledge of the invisible, and when he told his dreams and visions the others scoffed. When he appeared they cried in derision, "Behold, this dreamer cometh." They refused to plant their seed words in the soil of the invisible substance, and the result was a famine. "There was no corn in Canaan."

When we refuse to observe the law of the Lord and work our life problem according to Divine Principle, we are compelled to work it in another way. Thousands go down into Egypt and suffer its bondage and trials, who might remain in the "Promised Land" and produce corn enough and to spare, if they were more observant of and obedient to spiritual leadings.

But even in the world of materiality the "chosen of the Lord" increase and multiply. The strong point of the Israelites was their faith in the One God. No matter how great your trials, nor how dark the way, if you firmly believe in the Omnipresent Good you will succeed, and no oppression will ever be great enough to hold you down.

Lesson 8. May 26.

CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION OF MOSES. Exodus

2:1-15.

I. And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.

And the woman conceived, and bars a son: and when

she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 3. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

4. And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.

5. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it.

6. And she opened it, and saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

7. Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

8.

And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.

9.

And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. the woman took the child, and nursed it.

And

IO. And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said, Because I drew him out of the water.

II. And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

12.

And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

13. And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?

14.

And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? thinkest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known.

15. Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.

GOLDEN TEXT- And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; and he was mighty in his words and works. - Acts 7:22.

The birth of Moses represents the development in consciousness of the law of man's being from the negative side. The meaning of the word Moses is "drawn out of the water." Water represents uniPossibility of Nature.

versal Negation - the All "The spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters." "Let the waters be gathered together." Geology says that life on this planet was first manifest in the waters. Thus the mind that created the