Christianity came after Epicureanism, teaching that the kingdom of God cometh not by observation of earth's disasters; that we must "Look up to the fields white for the harvest" -- "To the God that giveth to all men liberally" -- And God shall wipe away all tears."

True mysticism in every age and every land calls the spreading appearances of earth mirage and delusion. What inspirations, what instructions, can possibly arrive as the resuIts of much study of mirage and delusion? What noble cures, what divine immuneness from necessity for cure have arrived, or ever will arrive from the observations of men in the torture chambers of vivisection? On the contrary, is it not written that "He that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword?"

True mysticism teaches a practice that resuIts in cure for all its devotees, and exposes to them the immune offspring of Jehovah-All-Peace on every side. He that looketh toward Me doth everywhere behold Me. "I the Lord will hasten it."

In the eighteenth psalm David proclaims that he called upon the Lord, and was delivered from his enemies and his wisdom candle was lighted. Solomon, his son, explains for us that David's candle was the Spirit of the Lord shining upon him: "The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord."

Job in his identification with affliction lamented the lost days when he had seen the candle of the Lord shining on his head, which candle he himself had hidden by much gazing toward suffering.

The secret of a man is his candle of lordship, his spirit of wisdom. Dr. Arnold of Rugby studied every