way. For Love is My Voice, the way thou mayest always know when I speak. Learn to know My Voice, beloved.

That is why, here at the beginning, I Jesus Christ, tell thee that I, Love and the Father are One; that Love is all I AM and all that the Father IS; that without Love ye are nothing, but with Love the way for thee is wide open unto the Father, and He but awaits thy recognition of Me as I AM, to pour out upon thee the riches of His Kingdom.

IT IS this scientific world which is at the bottom of much of our materialism. It has helped us in comfort—if comfort is any use to us. Otherwise it has usually been a curse to us, because it obscures the vital thing—the object of life.

We were not put onto this planet in order that we should go fifty miles an hour in a motor car, or to cross the Atlantic in an air-ship, or to send messages either with or without wires. These are the mere trimmings and fringes of life. But the men of science have so riveted our attention on these fringes that we forget the central object.

It is not how fast we go that matters; it is the object of our journey. It is not how you send a message; it is what value the message.

At every stage this so-called “progress” may be a curse, and yet as long as we use the word we confuse it with real progress, and imagine we are doing that for which God sent us into the world.

We were sent here to prepare ourselves for the next phase of life. There is a mental preparation and a spiritual preparation, and we are neglecting both.

To be in old age better men and women, more unselfish, more broadminded, more genial and tolerant—that is what we are here for. This world is a Soul factory—and it is turning out a bad article.