curse and not to bless; but Balaam, still under the bright sway of High Wisdom, caught by a night's communing with The Transcending, could not enter again into their psychological aura, and despite their threats, being as it were in a trance, having his eyes still open, he pronounced the words of the High Deliverer:

"How goodly are thy tents 0 Jacob, and thy tabernacles 0 lsrael! Blessed is he that blesseth thee -- How shall I curse whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy whom God hath not defied? For from the tops of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: Lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations." Balaam saw the life of the Jews on earth three thousand years ahead of him, even up to this day, when the Sceptre of the Israelitish stock, the Star of the Son of Jacob is the morning magnet of the whole earth --

"The star that shone over the manger
Now covering the earth with its light."

"He that overcometh, and keepeth the word of my patience, I also will keep him." Come over the personal hardships by looking up. Did not the Great Prophet say: "In the days of world war and universal lamentation, Look up" (St. Luke, 21st chapter).

Keep the Great Name, or the Great Word, as set forth in the first study, and prove the promise, I will keep thee from the hour of temptation."

A servant girl feeling the spark burning in her breast said, "l must be a missionary. With God all things are possible, and he has called me to be a missionary." When the mission board received her application they told her