But men give up to the senses, especially sexuality, and waste in sensation the forces of the body. The way out of this ignorance is through I AM. Man must not give up expecting that something outside of himself will save him. He must stop all desire for external sensation, and know that the only pleasure is to do the will of God. No man ever yet got real pleasure and satisfaction from the senses. The effort to do so always leads to dust and ashes, depletion and a falling asleep.

The whole creation groans waiting for the redemption of their bodies. Jesus gave us the one and only way to redemption, which is to incorporate the great I AM into consciousness. Make the resolve that you will be master. Do not look away off for help; you will never find it outside of your own consciousness. God's power must be incorporated in your consciousness and you must understand how it works and work with it. Through thought you must work the Truth into every part of your Temple. This is easy, but it requires attention and persistence. The body requires spiritual quickening, because it carries on a line of action beyond the realm of conscious thinking. If I live in a Temple which belongs to me I should know what is going on in it.

The condition of man after death is highly problematical to those who live in the sense-consciousness. If death is a falling asleep, as our highest authorities say, the probabilities are that the sleeper dreams. You can't tell what you are going to dream. “But in that sleep of death what dreams may come must make us pause.”

We do know this, that life is. Let us cling to the consciousness of life, and hold everybody in the understanding of the statement of Jesus Christ, "I am the Resurrection and the Life.”

Those who sleep are not complete as we are. This is the place, this is the hour, this is the Day of Resurrection. This is the day of salvation. If you want to rise out of sense-consciousness, get down into your inner

life and proclaim to every. part of the body, "I am the Resurrection and the Life." In this way, you will get a broader comprehension of I AM. You will find that it

is more than the little personal I. When man comes into consciousness of I AM he will come unto the unity of all Life and the presence and power of Spirit. I AM is the center and circumference of life. Take, in your overcoming, that great statement of Jesus Christ, "I am the resurrection and the life."

If thou seek this or that, and wouldst be here or there, the better to enjoy thine own profit and pleasure, thou shalt never be at peace, nor free from trouble of mind. For in every case somewhat will be wanting, and in every place there will be someone to cross thee. No place availeth if the spirit of fervor be wanting, neither shall that peace long continue which is sought from without. If the state of thy heart be destitute of a true foundation-that is, if thou stand not steadfast in methou mayest change, but not better thyself. For when occasion ariseth and is laid hold of, thou wilt find that which thou didst flee from, and yet more.-Thomas A. Kenpis.

"A man is not really cured until his character is changed, until he has substituted peace, love and courage for fear, worry, sin. Physical disease is often only a symptom of deeper distresses of the personality growing out of sin and selfishness, and such physical disease cannot be permanently cured until the deep underlying cause is removed. All these things are within

the gift of religion, and religion alone."

There is a remedy for every wrong and satisfaction

for every soul.-Emerson.

"Life, and all that speaks of it, is lovely."

WARNING AND INVITATION.-Matt. 11:20-30.

20. Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not.

21. Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

22. Howbeit I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.

23. And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted unto heaven? thou shalt go down unto Hades: for if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in thee, it would have remained until this day.

24. Howbeit I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee. 25. At that season Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes:

26. yea, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight. 27. All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knoweth the Son, save the Father; neither doth any know the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal him.

28. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

29. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

GOLDEN TEXT-Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.— Matt. 11:28.

Doubt and indifference are worse than positive wrong, according to the teaching of Jesus in this lesson, and in other places he emphasizes the necessity of being positive and definite.

Also that the worldly people (Tyre and Sidon) will fare better than the religiously bigoted and unreceptive in the day of judgment.

Jesus was strikingly progressive-he scored the old Jews for their conservatism, and showed them that by their narrowness they were closing the door to the great Messianic influx of which he was the forerunner. The greatest of poets wrote:

"There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows and in miseries."

This is true of both the individual and the race.

Jesus was the herald of a mighty spiritual tide which is lifting the whole race to new and much higher standards of civilization. He was the mouth piece of Jehovah and his announcement of the New Kingdom was authoritative. His followers expected it to be set up at once, not understanding the mental changes necessary before men could enter into it, but Jesus told them that no man could tell the day nor the hour, but the Father only.

But the "shallows and miseries" of those who do not change from the old to the new, who refuse to believe and repent! These are the cities, or opposing mind-groups, that will fall short when the finer forces of the new race consciousness are ushered in. This time will be to them a great day of judgment in which they will either come up higher or be swept aside by the mighty flood of spiritual life.

These things are hid from the worldly wise and prudent and revealed unto "babes in Christ."

How strained the mental atmosphere of the New Jerusalem would be if all the intellectually wise people of the earth could enter and bring their wisdom with them. We should be thankful that this is not to be, that it is those of simple, childlike, receptive minds who come into the understanding of the easy, natural principles governing life.

The Christ message to the brain-burdened is "Come unto me and I will give you rest." Do not try to unravel the skein of life with your fingers of sense, but let go and enter into the meek and lowly Spirit of Jesus and you will "find rest unto your souls."

TWO

Lesson 5. May 1,

SABBATH

INCIDENTS.-Matt.

12:1-14.

1. At that season Jesus went on the sabbath day through the fields of grain; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck ears of grain, and to eat.

2. But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which it is not lawful to do upon the sabbath.

3. But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they that were with him;

4. how he entered into the house of God, and did eat the showbread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them that were with him, but only for the priests?

5. Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless?

6. But I say unto you, that one greater than the temple is here.

7. But if ye had known what this meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. 8. For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath.

9. And he departed thence, and went into their synagogue: 10. and behold, a man having a withered hand. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? that they might accuse him.