f whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and
unloose. I baptized you in water; but he shall baptize you in the
Holy Spirit.--Mark 1:2-8.

The men who were baptized by John were not looking forward to death and to
salvation after death, but to the coming of the Kingdom of God and of his
Messiah. They repented and accepted the badge of baptism in order to have
a share in the blessings of the Kingdom and to escape the imminent
judgment of the Messiah. Baptism was then the mark of a national and
social movement toward a new era, and was a personal dedication to a
righteous social order. This original idea of baptism was practically lost
to the Christian consciousness in later times. Every man who today
realizes the Kingdom of God as the supreme good, can reaffirm his own
baptism as a dedication to the social ideal and to the leadership of Jesus
who initiated it. Such a social interpretation of our personal
discipleship will bring us into closer spiritual agreement with the
original aim of Christianity.

_Has our baptism ever had a social significance to us?_

Fourth Day: The Way to Happiness

Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye
shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye
shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body
than the raiment? Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow
not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, and your
heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value than
they? And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the
measure of his life? And why are ye anxious concerning raiment?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not,
neither do they spin: yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all
his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God doth so
clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is
cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of
little faith? Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat?
or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? For
after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly
Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye
first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things
shall be added unto you. Be not therefore anxious for the morrow:
for the morrow will be anxio