within us that will transcend all the desires of the outer senses. When our powers are placed aright, we shall direct our aspirations and ambitions toward God; we shall know that we can be satisfied with nothing that earth can give. Just think what the Christ life will mean to us when we let it take charge of our consciousness.

We do not have to stimulate our senses to bring us anything; it is already ours. So, let us see whether we cannot really find out what our souls are longing for.

We condemn men for drinking liquor, but we should not do so. The drinker has a great longing to do something. He does not want to follow the common walks of life; he wants to follow the higher ways. Not understanding this urge within himself, he thinks that he can satisfy it with sense, so he takes something stimulating. We are never satisfied through sense; it enslaves us more and more. Aspiration is the soul's trying to find its wings, trying to realize wholeness in Christ. Never, until we find wholeness in Christ, shall we be satisfied.

Those who give way to appetite, who drink liquor, who take drugs, are hungering and thirsting after righteousness. Remember the Jesus Christ words of light and blessing, "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled." In most cases, an individual who drinks too