done here in my native town. But unfortunately a prophet is honored anywhere but in his own country.

"There were many widows in Israel when Elijah lived, besides the Sidonian widow of Zarepath, but when there was a drought in the land for three years and a half, it was only to her that Elijah came. There were many lepers in Israel in Elisha's day, but none of them were cleansed but Naaman, the Syrian."

At first the listeners were pleased by the grace of his words and exclaimed, "Why, can this be Joseph's son?" But as he proceeded they became increasingly angry and finally hustled him out of the synagogue to the edge of the cliff on which the town is built and attempted to throw him over, but he passed through their midst and went away.

CHAPTER THREE.

EARLIEST TEACHING IN JERUSALEM.

THE Passover Feast was at hand and Jesus

went up to it and taught in the temple.

Many saw the works that he did and professed to believe in him, but Jesus did not altogether trust them because he could read men's hearts, and was not deceived by protestations.

While Jesus was in Jerusalem a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, came to Jesus by night and said to him: "Sir, we know that you are a teacher that has been taught of God, for no one could do the works that you are doing unless God was with him. May I ask you a question? You speak of the Kingdom of God; what do you mean by it?"

Jesus replied: "The Kingdom of God, or the

John 2: 13; 2: 23-3: 21; 3: 31-36.

Spiritual Realm, is an independent order of reality that is higher than the natural order, and can not be fully understood except by one who is born from above.

Nicodemus said: "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?"

Jesus answered: "It is not a matter of physical birth; but nevertheless I repeat what I said, except one be born of Spiritual Vitality he can not advance into the Spiritual Realm. That which is born of the natural flesh, is flesh, of course; but that which is born of Spiritual Vitality is spirit. Do not wonder when I say that it is necessary to be born again. There are other things that are hard for you to understand. You can hear the sound of the wind as it passes, but you do not know from whence it comes, or whither it is going. In a similar way one may be conscious of the spiritual birth without being able to understand from whence it comes or whither it will lead."

Nicodemus replied: "But how can it be pos

sible?"

Jesus said: "Are you a teacher in Israel, Nicodemus, and doubt what I have said? I am telling you only what I know to be true, and am bearing witness only to what I have seen; but you do not accept my testimony. If you are unwilling to believe when I tell you earthly things, how do you expect to believe if I tell you Spiritual truths? No man can enter the Spiritual Realm to prove its existence for himself. He must accept it on faith in the word of the only one who is able to testify, and that One is the Son of man who came forth from the Spiritual Realm, and still retains his life in the Spiritual Realm.

"Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so that all who had faith to look up might be healed; even thus must the Son of man be lifted up, so that all those that believe in the Love Thought may not perish but may enter the timeless Life of the Spiritual Realm.

"For Sovereign Love so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whoever trustingly believes in him should not perish, but should have the timeless Life. For Sovereign Love did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. He that trustingly believes in the only begotten Son of Sovereign Love does not come into judgment, but he that does not believe in him has by that very fact been already judged. For the Love Thought has come as a Light into the world, and men are tested by their attitude toward that Light.

"If their works are evil, men will prefer darkness rather than light; for men that do wicked deeds hate the light and will not come into it because they know that it will expose their wickedness and they will be reproved. But men that purpose to do right are glad to come into the light, for they know that it will prove that their deeds are in harmony with the will of Sovereign Love.