When its needs are supplied with the provisions of the Creator for them, there will be joy inexpressible; but, when they go unsupplied by the provisions of the Creator, there will be sorrow and torment. As it was previously shown that adulterations and substitutes for the provisions of the Creator to meet the needs of the body, not only failed to afford a satisfactory supply, but rather injured the body and its real needs, so also adulterations or substitutes for the provisions of the Creator to meet the needs of the soul, will not only fail to supply the needs of the soul, but will injure the soul, and its real needs.

The provisions of the Creator for the needs of the body are not only real, but they are tangible and discernible by the bodily senses, and their reality is thus rendered selfevident. But the provisions of the Creator for the supply of the needs of the soul, while just as real as those for the body, are neither tangible, nor discernible by the bodily senses, and cannot be understood as material things are understood.

Indeed, the provisions of the Creator for the needs of the soul have not and cannot be discovered and understood by the human mind in its present condition, unaided by the Creator. Hence, in this connection, the provisions for the satisfying of the needs of the soul, though real, cannot be specified, but will be, in another connection, later on.

V

SUPPLYING THE SPIRITUAL OR SOUL NEEDS OF THE NATURAL MAN INFINITELY MORE UNSATISFACTORY THAN THAT OF HIS BODILY NEEDS

We have learned from the study of Man that in his present natural condition his bodily needs, though only physical, finite and temporal, are as a rule very inadequately satisfied-contrary to the evident design of his Creator.

This is most surely and unquestionably true, notwithstanding the abundant, perfectly adaptable and all-satisfying provisions of the Creator for the supply of these needs, and notwithstanding these provisions are so near at hand for use, and are so readily and clearly discerned and understood by the mind through the bodily senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste.

If, therefore, the supply of the physical, finite, and temporal needs of the body is so unsatisfactory when the provisions of the Creator for their supply are so near and so clearly discerned and understood by the mind through the bodily senses, how much more unsatisfactory must be the supply of the spiritual, infinite, and eternal needs of the soul, when the spiritual sense of these needs, through which only the mind can at all discern and understand the spiritual, infinite and eternal provisions of the Creator for their supply, is to all appearances dead.

Deprived of their spiritual sense, the needs of the soul are abnormal. They do not long for the spiritual provisions of the Creator for their supply, but blindly crave for a satisfactory supply of some kind, which is never realized.

Deprived of their spiritual sense, the needs of the soul do not afford the mind the means through which to discern and understand the spiritual, infinite and eternal provisions of the Creator for their complete supply.

Accordingly, the mind of Man, ignorant of the true provisions of the Creator for the soul's needs, is constantly and vainly exercising itself in a thousand ways to provide these needs with a satisfactory supply. All manner of studies, entertainments, social attractions, and amusements, (some of which might be of great benefit and pleasure when rightly used) are thus vainly afforded the needs of the soul for their satisfaction by the natural mind.

Among these studies may be noted: 1. Ingenious and plausible philosophies of every kind; 2. Fictitious creations of the mind with the widest range of the imagination, presented in story through the printed page, or in drama and comedy on the public stage; 3. Entrancing music and captivating pictures that charm the ear and the eye; not to speak of the numberless corrupt and hurtful entertainments and amusements that everywhere abound.

All of these are but mockery instead of satisfactory supplies for the spiritual, infinite and eternal needs of the soul.

Since, therefore, all the studies and fictitious creations of the natural mind have never sufficed to satisfy even the

abnormal needs of the soul-Man has from time immemorial striven to satisfy these spiritual, infinite and eternal needs of the soul by the accumulation, disposition and use of the material, finite and temporal provisions of the Creator for the needs of the body, which has never been done, nor ever can be.

Thus, from the very nature of the needs to be supplied, and of the provisions sought to supply them, a true and satisfactory supply is an impossibility.

However, by his strenuous and persistent efforts to accomplish this impossible task, Man has created a demand for these provisions far beyond what they were made for, namely, the needs of the body. In consequence, there has been persistent an irrepressible struggle on the part of all men in almost every way to acquire these provisions for their own use and advantage. In this struggle, the strong secure more than they need and the weak less than their needs require. Instead of satisfaction and happiness as a result, there have ever been, and are now, disappointments, misunderstandings, contentions, fights and wars between individuals, communities, states, and nations.

The foregoing paragraph was written at least two years before the beginning of the present unparalleled war between the nations of Europe. Because of the misunderstandings that led to it, the unexampled destruction of life and property effected by it, and the unsatisfactory results attending it in every way, nothing in all history has furnished so complete an illustration of the statement made in the preceding paragraph.

VI

A COMPLETE REVELATION TO MAN BY HIS CREATOR AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY

The whole human race, as far back as Man alone can trace it, till now, has been involved in this uncertain and unsatisfying condition of being. All men, at some time or other, under this intense and continuous strain, have inquired of themselves, or of others, with all the intensity of their being: "How did we come into existence?" "Why are these things so?" "Can we be delivered from them?" "What will the end be?"

For these burning questions there must be satisfactory answers based upon good and sufficient reasons. Man, of himself, has never been able to find out the real cause of this condition of being and understand it, much less has he been able to make it plain to others. The Creator has endowed Man with a consciousness to know and understand in part, and a conscience for a monitor to urge him to choose the good and avoid the evil. But nothing short of a revelation from his Creator can answer satisfactorily these all-important questions.

While Man in his present condition, and for thousands of years past, has been able of himself, with the powers afforded him by his Creator, to understand to a very remarkable degree the material creation, its laws and his relation to them, and make almost unlimited use of the same, yet, of the origin of the material world, and of him