NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



ful for nothing, and thereby has 

 all things. The meek inherit even 

 the earth. It becomes safe for 

 a man to have riches only when 

 he can easily do without them 

 When the feeders of our soul are 

 fastened upon God, it becomes a 

 small thing for us to be judged of 

 man — really fearing praise more 

 than blame. To such a one re- 

 venge, malice, passion, appetite, 

 grow empty. Christ spoke a sim- 

 ple truth, not a paradox, when He 

 said : " They shall lay their hands 

 upon you and persecute you, and 

 ye shall be betrayed both by 

 parents and brethren and kins- 

 folks and friends; and some of 

 you they will cause to be put to 

 death, and ye shall be hated of 

 all men for my name's sake, but 

 not a hair of your head shall per- 

 ish." He who has been born into 

 the kingdom of the spiritual man 

 knows that all these things can 

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