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We must not wait to confess him after we get out of contrary appearances, else we can never get out. We confess in the midst of the turmoil of adverse thoughts and their outward expression, and he stills the storm. Faith in him is first nec

essary; then faith is set to work by acknowledgment.

We are all the time either confessing or denying Him, and this it is that marks the degree of success or failure that attends us.

The thought of confession of Christ is not complete without a reminder that he should be confessed in every man. Never should we deny him in any one, for he dwells in every soul awaiting recognition, acknowledgment and expression.

I confess that Jesus Christ is in my flesh, and he is made unto me righteousness and redemption. Not to one alone is this blessing, and not to a few, but to all; for Christ is the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world. Every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God. OUR FATHER

Thou art my all

From thee, alone,

My life and light can come.

Thou art my all,

And thou alone,

My Peace, my Rest, my Home.

Thou art my all.

In thee alone

I am, I live, and move.

Thou art my all

Thy love alone

Can teach me how to live.

Thou art our all

Thy Life alone

From the tiniest drop of dew

Lives through thy creatures,

Every one,

To heaven's expanse of blue.

Julia P. Hascall

CHRISTMAS

When the Christ-Consciousness is born in your soul you will know the meaning of the Christmas Festival.

This birth is not a matter of outward observation and you may not know just when it takes place in yourself. There was no room at the public inn for Mary, and her son was born in a cave-stable.

Mary is the soul that magnifies the Lord daily in the Temple, and through her devotions prepares herself for the higher Life.

The Higher Life is a higher state of mind. It exists as the soul of God and we know it when we realize I AM the Son of God.

You may have to " magnify the Lord" in your Temple a long time before the "Sun or Righteousness" bursts forth. This birth of God-Consciousness at the Soul-Center, the holy place within, is a very high attainment. Devotees of religious cults in all ages have willingly made every human sacrifice to reach it. The difference between the Son of Man and the Son of God is here defined. The Son of Man is the Mind of change, with its transitory temple. This Son goes to and fro in the Universe seeking the Heavenly Place, and finding it not. When this Son perceives the truth that Harmony is not a place but a condition of consciousness the Soul begins to purify itself.

Pray for the Perfect. Meditate upon the Pure. Affirm the Fearless, and Secretly dwell in the Place of the Most High. In Imagination see yourself that Prince of God. "With unveiled face, reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, we are transformed into the same image from glory to glory."-C. F.

Let no child weep over an empty stocking because you have failed in your duty.

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In religious matters, the great trouble with all of us is that we build our structure before firmly establishing our foundation. Consequently, after getting a glittering structure pointing proudly to heaven, we find it trembling and shaking with every wind that blows.

The essential foundation to any system of spiritual thought is faith in God. "Oh," you say "I believe in God." Yes, you say you do, and think you do, but how many really do believe in God, with all that is implied in such be ief? We must not merely believe in God as an intellectual process, but must have a living, abiding faith in his reality, a faith which we not only believe, but feel every hour and minute of our lives.

Let us consider some of the things that

follow such faith.

First, God is all-powerful.

Nothing is too

great for him to accomplish, nothing too minute for him to observe. Let us never fear that any thing is getting away from God's care. Whatever happens is God's will, and must be accepted as such.

Second, God is all-wise. He never makes a mistake. He tries no experiments. He knows the end

from the beginning.

Finally and chiefly, God is Good. He does not get angry, he is not revengeful, he does not do things to punish us, he does not arbitrarily choose one and reject another. He has not brought us into the world Truly and literally, God is Love, and in all his dealings with us he is expressing love and nothing else.

to mock us.

These are some of the things we believe, if we believe in God at all, since we can not conceive of God at all without these attributes. We must cultivate

our faith in the reality and constant presence of this all-wise, all loving God, until we never, for a single moment, feel a thought that conflicts with that faith.

Let us enumerate some of the thoughts that are excluded by faith:

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We can never fear anything whatever. not permit anything to happen to us that can possibly hurt us, but everything that comes to us comes because it is the thing that we need at that particular time. Of course in this discussion I am talking about our true, immortal spiritual selves.

We can never have any doubt, anxiety, or uncertainty as to the future. Every honest effort is rewarded as it deserves, we live from day to day literally fulfilling the injunction to take no thought, that is, be not anxious about the morrow. Freed, therefore, from all troubling thoughts, we go our ways with confidence, security, happiness, and life is filled with an inward joy that never fails. These are some of the things that follow from a perfect faith in God.

"I know not where his islands lift

Their fronded palms in air;

I only know I cannot drift

Beyond his love and care.”

It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sickroom. By all means begin your task; even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if the hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. It is not only in finished undertakings that we ought to honor useful labor. A spirit goes out of the man who means execution, which outlives the most untimely ending. All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it. Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.- Robert Louis Stevenson.

October 30, 1907

"LET GO"

LED BY FAYETTE M. DRAKE

In my boyhood days there was a pump in the kitchen of my father's home used for drawing water from a cistern in the basement. One of the peculiarities of this pump was the necessity for putting water into it to get water from it. The memory of this old pump has always stood out clear and distinct among the recollections of my childhood; but the lesson which it contained has but recently dawned upon me. That lesson is this: If we would get good out of anything we must first put good into it, and that rule obtains in all the affairs of life.

If we would get good from the silence, we must put something into the words we take into the silence. Were we to place upon this table a phonograph, record upon its plates the most perfect words of truth the mind can conceive of, and let it run continually, we would realize from it, what? Nothing. Why? Simply because the words would be an empty sound, without Spirit; they would be a "sounding brass."

It is the Spirit that quickeneth." Spirit is Love, Faith, Trust. If we put Spirit into our words, and are faithful in abiding in them, they will go forth in the strength and power of Spirit to accomplish. that whereunto we send them.

I now ask that you go with me into the silence with these words, making them alive with the strength and power of Spirit:

"All things are now working together for my highest good, and my own comes to me through my willing obedience to the Divine Will."

It has been said that to change one's mind is the

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