would. Death is only your old-clothes man -- you may need him, and you may not.

For my part, I don’t care whether I ever die again or not. If I keep on building better and better (and I see no reason why I shouldn’t) I shall live right along indefinitely, maybe forever.

But if ever I get myself into such a tangle as some folks do, and as I have got into in times past, I shall do what Jesus did -- give up my body.

Ida C. Craddock, sweet, earnest, clean soul, chose, for the sake of forcing her teachings upon an unready world, to butt her head repeatedly against the stone wall of Law, until she was so bruised and discouraged that she -- wiped off her slate by conscious will. She made the martyr’s choice and mistake, which means always death.

If ever I got tangled up as Ida Craddock did I might end the matter as she did -- as Socrates ended his troubles.

But I hope to avoid the paths that lead to death. I love to live, and I mean to keep on living more and more fully and positively. I am seeking FIRST the law of Life and to live it.

Ida Craddock sought FIRST to convert and reform the world The world, which did not want to be reformed, nor even to be taught too fast to reform itself, made things so warm for Ida Craddock that she couldn’t stand it.

It seems a great pity. But it isn’t. Ida chose her own course, knowing the result; she has learned her lessons, wiped off her mistakes and gone on to do still better work for herself and the world.

Jesus of Nazareth did much as Ida did. He spoke out in meeting, and out of it, until he stirred people up to crucify Him. He wanted to be crucified, in order that He might prove that He could live again.

But I want to live all the time, and I don’t care whether or 1 not I prove anything to anybody but myself.

Jesus and Ida Craddock deliberately trod the road to death. According to their faith and work, it was unto them.

I am treading my own individual path where no death is.

Death lies waiting for him who works against the established order -- who makes crosses and carries them.