Self Help

ructions are directed toward the mass-man and devoted to calling the attention of the unfortunate and unsuccessful to his faults; all efforts point to the reconstruction of the life of those who are down and out. It seldom occurs to the ordinary mind that all things work together for the good or bad of everybody, and when the last word has been said to the employer, the employed, and the unemployed, there yet remain vast books to be written for the use of the employer, the master, the leader, the controller of things and of people. The employer, leader, or teacher and every life acting in a law of power and control has success and failure methods, and in the degree they operate them they take part in the upbuilding or destruction of their own and others' success. "The one who teaches learns," and as soon as anyone is in a position of power where his advice is given and acted upon, he is linked eternally with those who act upon it this is Karma, or the law of cause and effect, and through this he learns to give finer and finer advice. There is a great cosmic law of "live and let live," and those who are the fittest in the struggle for existence have the strongest will to work either rightness or iniquity. Our place on the path determines our power and the leader, employer or master who has the top round of the ladder of privilege and then deliberately kicks the one below him in the face, has the opportunity to do it, but not the right under the higher law of justice and he will do it at his own risk. There are many people who remain obscure because they are unfit for authority, and there are brutal offensive lives everywhere in authority. Power gives the individual a chance to express their own real nature, and when the desires are all for the self, the individual has little regard for the wants or feelings of others. Employers may bully their help along, they may sweat and drive them, getting the last cent's worth of labor out of them, and the employees may not be able to help themselves just at that moment, but the law of life keeps strict account, and somewhere the employers will feel the lash of their own law; sometimes the divine life-current in the submerged employees will burst forth in mad rebellion or insurrection, then strife, and blood-shed will settle the case. In Vancouver, British Columbia, I saw a sight that made me wonder "how long, oh, God, how long?" A great band of newly immigrated Hindu laborers were gathered together by a crowd