came near them, their doubts were dissolved? Does not the fearlessness of a bold and successful leader communicate itself to his associates?

The Risen Christ was weightless of body and think- less of mind. He was Pure Understanding, hot with universal dissolvent to human heaviness, dewy with working mystery. Then was fulfilled in His disciples the inspired promise that they of understanding should do exploits. Then was fulfilled in them the promise that whosoever should draw out his soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted, should have his light shine forth in obscurity, and the Lord should guide him continually. "To satisfy the afflicted" is to acknowledge the Lord of affliction. The Lord of affliction was Jesus the Judean, wounded for the transgressions of the world, bruised for its iniquities, bearing the chastisement of the peace of all mankind, that by His stripes they might be healed.

To draw out the soul, and to acknowledge, are noted as identical activities in the Scriptures, being followed by the same resuIts -- the breaking forth of the light, and the consciousness of daily guidance by the Lord of victorious living. "In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths." "Draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted . . . then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday: And the Lord shall guide thee continually."

To acknowledge the Great Hungry is a mystical expression, meaning to acknowledge Him that swalloweth up death, and hell, and the "Egyptians," and the ways of the paths downward. This is to acknowledge Jesus the Saviour from death, and hades, and darkness, and the paths downward.

And the only Scripture the Risen One gave the