own indispensable, unchanging, ever-living laws. It is ever around us, above us, bebeneath us; and thus it will continue to be when time and space are annihilated and when extension and duration are unknown. The attributes of time are its opposites; in the one there are confusion, turmoil, and fear; in the other, harmony, peace, and rest.

Eternity is the boundless domain of Love, the infinite abode of Truth, Life everlasting, the limitless realm of Immortal Mind, the presence of the ever-living God.

When soul shall be freed from its cumbrous load of material beliefs it shall grope no longer in the darkness of time, but shall bask in the sunlight of Eternity. The moment we begin to perceive the Understanding and accept the Truth, that very moment we enter Eternity.

After we have risen above the material and come into the Divine Light, we sometimes feel that we are in the fulness of the infinite Understanding, and thus become

wise in our own conceit. It is then the danger comes; it is then that we take the credit of this Understanding to ourselves instead of recognizing God as the Omniscient, and thus do we sow the seed of error in our hearts, and from this seed spring pride and self-righteousness; we seek the favor and flatteries of the world, and would fain have our opinions accepted even to the rejection. of all things else. It is thus that we become separated from Truth and unconsciously drift into error. When a man hath come so far and climbed so high that he thinketh. and weeneth he standeth sure, let him beware lest the devil strew ashes, and his own bad feed on his heart, and nature seek and take her own comfort, rest, peace and delight in the prosperity of his soul, and he fall into a foolish, lawless freedom and licentiousness, which is altogether alien to, and at war with the true life in God. And this will happen to that man who hath not entered, or refuseth to enter in by the right Way and the right

Door (which is Christ, as we have said), and imagineth that he would or could come by any other way to the highest truth. He may perhaps dream that he hath attained thereunto, but verily he is in error. And our witness is Christ who declareth: 'Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.' A thief, for he robbeth God of His honor and glory, which belong to God alone; he taketh them unto himself, and seeketh and purposeth himself. A murderer, for he slayeth his own soul, and taketh away her life which is from God. For as the body liveth by the soul, even so the soul liveth by God. Moreover, he murdereth all those who follow him, by his doctrine and example."

It was the wise or learned people of the times who put to death the prophets. The prophets arose and set at naught the wisdom. or material understanding of the people, pro

claimed their errors, and predicted their destruction. The people maintained that they were right, and did not believe the prophets, and, as the teaching of the prophets annoyed them, they put them to death.

As time passed, later generations, descendants of these same people, accepted the prophecies and acknowledged the authority of the prophets. They saw that their fathers had done wrong in disbelieving and killing the prophets, and very naturally felt that they would have done differently had they lived at that time. But had they understood, instead of believed, the prophecy of the prophets, they would not have killed Jesus. and his disciples, for they came in fulfilment of that prophecy, and their teaching agreed with that of the prophets. But the people did not understand the prophets, and, therefore, they killed Jesus and the disciples for the same reason that their fathers killed the prophets.

Now the learned people of to-day accept

the prophets, Jesus and the disciples, and acknowledge their authority, and declare that our fathers were wrong in persecuting and killing them. They feel confident that had they lived in those times they would not have done so, but, notwithstanding their belief in them, they really understand little or nothing about them. The people of today say that they believe that they have the Truth now (so did the Scribes and Pharisees say and believe then) and they act according to their belief, leaving the coming generation to find out their mistakes..

Should any one arise in this generation and proclaim that the learned people are not wise in the wisdom of God, but that what they call wisdom is foolishness with God, the people would feel very much as did those of old when they were thus informed. Each generation is wise in its own conceit, and sees only the follies of the past. Thus while they readily discern the errors of the past, they fail to observe those of the present.