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or teachers of evil, who, while claiming to do God's will, give more power to the devil than to God, (there is no power of the devil that can withstand the power of God) they are wolves in sheep's clothing. Jesus said, 'If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do them, though ye believe not me, believe the works." It does no good to tell what one can do, or has done, the only sure sign is to do the work. "Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb." "Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.” Jesus said, Love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you; that ye may be sons of your Father which is in heaven: for

he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust."

Many think this is easy to say but hard

to fulfil; this proves that they do not understand the immortal Truth. I will show you that it is easy to fulfil if you start in the right direction. Suppose you have an understanding of mathematics, music, or any principle which is perfect in itself, — admitting of no contradiction; and you attempt to impart it to others, and your pupils or friends insist upon making discords, calling them harmony, not understanding yet, what harmony is, but thinking that they know, and that you must be mistaken; would you feel angry with them, or would you rather pity them, and try all the harder to make them see the truth? You would feel only pity for their ignorance, knowing that if they knew the truth they would do differently. So he who has the true understanding of God ("Theology") will feel only pity toward those who wrongfully use and abuse him, knowing that they have not the true understanding and that they err through ignorance. For Jesus said, "Father, forgive

them, for they know not what they do." Those who are in the wrong themselves do not enjoy hearing others praised, but will try to find some fault or imperfection to bring up against them, while if you tell a good man that another is bad, he is sorry to hear it, and will try to recall some good of him; he will not join in denouncing him, but if he can do him no good, will let him alone and speak no evil of him, unless obliged to do so.

He who is a follower of Christ ought not only to repeat the command but also to fulfil it. "So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things . but the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the likeness of God: out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.' "Woe unto them that call evil good, and

good evil, that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." Thus the good man or the man governed by the spiritual understanding of God, knowing what eternal Truth is, will always forgive the evil doers, because he pities them, and knows that they, not having his understanding of Truth, do not fully realize what they do, hence, "Without contradiction the less is blessed of the better." If we, knowing the right, do wrong we cannot heal the sick, because our reward is according to our work.

If you know that four and four added together make eight, but you make it seven and three quarters, you have the sentence within yourself of condemnation, but if, not knowing the truth, you make it wrong, you have unconsciously done wrong, and the only way to atone for it, is to erase the wrong work, seek and acquire the under standing of mathematics, and perform the example correctly. If we do wrong con

sciously, feigning christianity, we have the sentence within ourselves of condemnation, and we have no reward; excuses will avail us not; the power which we have shall be taken from us, and as Paul said, concerning those who were once enlightened and then fell away from the Truth, it were better for us had we never known the Truth.

This is the same immortal Truth or Understanding that the prophets and Jesus taught; and Jesus said we could not, in this Truth, serve God and mammon, for he who is a friend of the world is not a friend of God. When we have the world's approbation we are not approved of God, therefore when one, through deception, malice, or slander, seeks to raise himself or herself above another, he or she may for a season receive the approbation of the world, but that means also, the disapprobation of God, "For they shall soon be cut off." There is one Judge that judges righteous judgment,