When
the seventy disciples returned to Jesus expressing their joy that the devils were subject unto them through his name, Jesus warned them saying, "Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
A man's
most urgent need, if he would work out his own salvation and do his part thereby in working out the salvation of the world, is vision, not the vision referred to as the act of seeing materially but, on the contrary, the act of spiritual perception which enables him to take cognizance of the unfolding of the purposes of infinite Mind through spiritual thinking, through founding his thinking upon Principle.
In
the seventh chapter of the gospel of Matthew we read, "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
True
activity is the utilization or expression of the qualities of Spirit, such as love, unselfishness, meekness, kindness, happiness, thoughtfulness for others.
It
is always desirable to disarm engines of human ill will, whether they appear as war's implements, or simply hate and jealousy between individuals or nations.
Since
the beginning of the Adam-dream, when man was first condemned to till the soil, one of the greatest problems of mankind has seemed to be that of supply.
