place. And those reaching perfection will be glad to bow the knee to Him and to confess Him with their tongues. The Father is Excepted We are not to gather from these statements that Jesus, in any sense of the word, will take the place, the glory, the honor, of the Father. Jesus will be hailed as Lord of all, nevertheless it is manifest that He is excepted who put all things thus in subjection to the Son. Saint Paul emphasizes this by telling us (1st Cor. 15:27, 28.) that it will be the Father's power that will bring everything in subjection to the Son; and that when the Son, in carrying out the Father's most gracious plans, shall have put all things in obedience to Himself, then shall He deliver up the Kingdom to the Father, that the Father may be all in all. Truly the Divine Program, as stated in the Bible, is beautiful and wonderful. It illustrates to us elements of the Divine character that we never could have appreciated except as man's fall into sin and death gave opportunity for the exercise of Divine Wisdom, Justice, Love and Power. Had there been no sin, no death, there would have been no opportunity for God to manifest His Justice in dealing with the Sinner, no opportunity to manifest His Love for the world in providing that they should be rescued from the power of sin and death. Neither would there have been an opportunity for demonstrating Satan's disloyalty and whereunto it would lead. Neither would there have been an opportunity for testing the Only Begotten of the Father and demonstrating the depth of His love and loyalty even to the death of the Cross, unless sin had been permitted. Neither would there have been an opportunity for God to show His generosity in dealing with the Logos in His high exaltation to the Divine nature and glory. There would have been no opportunity to show the length, breadth, height and depth of the love of God in lifting the Church from the horrible pit and miry clay of sin and death, justifying them freely. through the merit of Christ's sacrifice, inviting them to share in His glory, honor and immortality, and finally bringing the Elect to participation in the Divine nature, and in the great work of Messiah.-Rev. 2:10, 26, 27. Room for Boundless Ambition In view of what we have seen of the Divine arrangement there surely is room for exercise of the most boundless ambition imaginable amongst those blest with the hearing ear and the Gospel Message. It would be a great ambition to strive to become kings and queens of the kingdoms of the world. It would be a great ambition to hope to become judges, senators, or the President of the United States. But such ambitions would be as nothing when compared with that set before the believers of God's Word-the ambition to be received by the Great Creator as Sons, partakers of the Divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4), heirs of God and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ our Lord, to a Heavenly inheritance and Kingdom everlasting. If anyone wants a grand ambition, here is one worth dying for! Indeed, it can be attained only by dying. First must come the death of the will as respects earthly aims, projects, ambitions, etc. Then gradually must come a transformed mind, which rejoices to die daily and to suffer with Christ, if so be that we may be also glorified with Him. (Romans 8:17.) This is the ambition necessary to make true, loyal soldiers of the Cross, willing to endure hardness in the Cause of the Captain of their Salvation, and to lay down life in the service of the King of kings. A Grand Rush for it One might suppose that such a Message would find millions anxious and willing to lay hold upon its terms. But no, only a few have faith-and without faith they cannot be pleasing to God. Some have a little faith and render a little obedience, take some steps, refrain from certain sins and seek to walk hand in hand with the Lord and with mammon. But these make a mistake. There is no promise to joint-heirship with the Savior except by a full cutting loose from the world and by a vital union with God through Christ. "He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear." He that hath a humble heart of obedience, let him lay hold of the promise and attain the greatest of all ambitions. As for others, let them choose the noblest ambitions of which they are capable, assured that in proportion as they are honest and loyal they shall eventually be blest under Messiah's Kingdom. Whoever has no ambition has not properly begun to live. Ambition implies appreciation of the value of life -a weighing of prospects and possibilities-a decision and a fixed determination of will. Parents and teachers should aim to lift before the mental vision of the young noble ideals, and to assist them in determining what they would copy and which goal they will bend life's energies to reach. To such parents and teachers many of those successful in life refer in terms of endearment, declaring how much they Owe to the encouragement of ideals and ambitions to which these assisted them. Many Woe-Begone Faces. As we learn to read character and observe people, we perceive that many are wholly without ambition; or that their ambitions are so low and trivial as not to be of real benefit. In a crowd of a thousand people, less than a hundred will show by their faces and their energy that they have an ideal, an ambition, and are pursuing it. In other words, nine-tenths of our poor, fallen race lack the very mainspring of life. This lack of proper ambition not only makes life a drudgery instead of a pleasure, but it is a menace to our social fabric. According to the Bible, it is this nine-tenths of the human family, without lawful ambitions, that will be anarchists, striving to pull down the structure of civilization in a kind of blind fury-the awakening of an ambition which, knowing not how to vent itself, will bring trouble upon all. Worldly Ambitions Profitable. It is the ambitious tenth of humanity that cause the wheels of progress to turn. Their ambitions are keeping their own minds actively occupied and are giving employment to the remainder of men. The ambitious mechanic hopes to become an inventor and to rise in the social scale. The ambitious clerk strives for success, hoping to become a successful merchant. The successful merchants, princes and captains of industry take pride in building up vast enterprises, in the erection of monumental edifices, in the construction of great Others have bridges, tunnels, etc. ambitions along professional lines. There is a general tendency among the ambitionless to view these successful people harshly, to think of their ambitions as purely selfish, giving no credit to the pleasure of an exercise of ambition which the majority cannot appreciate because they have none themselves. Contrary Thoughts Should Prevail. Men with ambition leading on to genius should be admired, appreciated; and it should be remembered that they have helped mankind in general to larger conceptions of life and to wider possibilities. We grant, indeed, the necessity for legislation in restraining the rich, and especially trusts and combinations of brain and money which might endanger the liberties and prosperity of the masses. But let us never forget how much we owe to the ambitious men whom we seek to restrain from power to crush those of less ambition and less capacity, who are more or less dependent upon them. As proving that some of our successful men were moved by ambition rather than love of money, we note the fact that, having accumulated vast fortunes, some are directing their energies in expending their money in the endowment of colleges, the building of libraries, the financing of political and medical investigations for public weal. Whether their judgment and ours agree, as respects the wisdom of their benefactions, is another matter. They have a right to exercise their own judgments in the use of money which came to them through the exercise of their own brains and ambitions. We can surely agree that a beautiful library building becomes an in In the Realm of centive for the erection of other beautiful buildings, even though comparatively few of the public make use of the books therein, and prefer the trashy kind. Perhaps some good may also result from the endowment of great colleges, even though they are doing more than anything else to undermine faith in the personal God of the Bible, and thus hastening the great day when anarchy by destroying faith and hope in Messiah's promised Kingdom, which are an offset to the trials and difficulties of the present life. And if to you or me should come the thought of how much more wisely we could use the money, let us check the thought, remembering that God has not entrusted it to us, and that all our time and thought may be more wisely used in connection with our own stewardship of what talent, influence and money we do possess. Bookland "Memories of My Youth, 1844-1865," by George Haven Putnam, Late Brevet Major, 176th Regt., N. Y. S. Vols., author of "Memoirs of G. P. Putnam," "Life of Lincoln," "Books and Their Makers," etc. This is an unusually interesting volume covering one of the most thrilling periods in the history of this country. In broad lines, politically, it marks with vivid, colorful bands the war with Mexico and the war which closed with Appomatox. The author comes of an old English family, and in the County of Buckinghamshire, England. The Putnam's came over with the Puritans, who migrated to Massachusetts, and members fought fought valiantly in the Revolutionary War. From this stock the author in his turn went to the front in the defense of the flag in 1865. Back in the '30's his The father had established himself in the book publishing business along with John Wiley, a partnership which later developed into the present well known publishing firm of G. P. 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He was disappointed in several attempts to escape, and finally, as an officer, was paroled. A supplementary chapter gives a brief account of service in maintaining order in Savannah after the close of the war, but before the re-establishment of civil government. As a comprehensive and entertaining view of the period covered, the book is well worth reading. Price $2 net. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London. "Corporate Promotions and Reorganizations," by Arthur Stone Dewing, Ph.D. (Harvard Univ.) 1905. Lecturer on Corporation Economics in Yale University and sometime Instructor in Economics in Harvard University. A critical narrative of the promotion, financial history and reorganization of fourteen large industrial consolidations. The studies present complete and detailed records of some of the important "cases" of our recent financial history. All the evidence has been drawn from original sources -and much of it from sources that will not be available in a few years. In the narrative portions of the text, no generalizations are introduced, but in three closing chapters the attempt has been made to draw such conclusions as the facts appear to warrant concerning promotions, the causes of financial failure, the events leading up to reorganization, and finally the reorganizations themselves. Although primarily a study in finance, the book discusses directly and by implication many economic and legal aspects of the so-called "trust problem." At various places in the book the probable results of governmental regula tion of large business enterprises are pointed out. The method of treatment is, in general, as follows: The general conditions of the industry in which the consolidation was formed are first discussed. Any "gentlemen's arguments," pools or legal trusts that preceded the formation of the combination are noted. 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