ld have regained their lost vitality and gone on to new victories.

Alas, of what avail was it; they turned away and opposed Him. They rose up
and tormented that Source of Divine knowledge, that Point where the
Revelation had come down--all except for a handful who, turning their faces
toward God, were cleansed of the stain of this world and found their way
to the heights of the placeless Realm. They inflicted every agony on that
Wellspring of grace until it became impossible for Him to live in the
towns, and still He lifted up the flag of salvation and solidly
established the fundamentals of human righteousness, that essential basis
of true civilization.

In the fifth chapter of Matthew beginning with the thirty-seventh verse He
counsels: "Resist not evil and injury with its like; but whosoever shall
smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." And further,
from the forty-third verse: "Ye have heard that it hath been said, 'Thou
shalt love thy neighbor, and thou shalt not vex thine enemy with
enmity.'(54) But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse
you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully
use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father
which is in heaven: for He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the
good, and sendeth down the rain of His mercy on the just and on the
unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not
even the publicans the same?"

Many were the counsels of this kind that were uttered by that Dayspring of
Divine wisdom, and souls who have become characterized with such
attributes of holiness are the distilled essence of creation and the
sources of true civilization.

Jesus, then, founded the sacred Law on a basis of moral character and
complete spirituality, and for those who believed in Him He delineated a
special way of life which constitutes the highest type of action on earth.
And while those emblems of redemption were to outward seeming abandoned to
the malevolence and persecution of their tormentors, in reality they had
been delivered out of the hopeless darkness which encompassed the Jews and
they shone forth in everlasting glory at the dawn of that new day.

That mighty Jewish nation toppled and crumbled away, but those few souls
who sought shelter beneath the Messianic Tree transformed all human life.
At that time the peoples of the world were utterly ignorant, fanatical and
id