honor and position, along with riches. The world loves to honor the man who loses himself in the cause for which he stands.

It was this quality in Gen. Ulysses S. Grant that made it easy for the world to honor the United States in honoring him. His reticence, his freedom from egotism, his modesty and freedom from all demands as U. S. Grant, opened wide the gates for the inrush of praise and gifts. The world lay at his feet. He needed only the Christ knowledge to have placed him forever beyond the reach of failure.

The full meekness of the Christ is established in the consciousness that makes right valuations. In it there is ever the seeking first of the kingdom of God, and there is perfect deliverance from the pursuit of material things. Material things follow; they seek the person possessed of such a consciousness. He does not need to run after them; they are drawn to him as fervently as steel to the magnet, for he has the substance that they represent.

Those who pursue material things are always just missing and may even have forgotten their ardent desire for them, do these things come into their world. The Talmud says:

“Who runs after greatness, greatness runs away from; but who runs away from greatness, greatness runs after.”