Success

ot the simplest thing in the world which is not governed by its own law, and to learn how to operate this law is the game men play everywhere. The thing we call "life" is man's master-game, and the one who understands all the rules of life is the winner in just the degree that he plays fair; he may cheat and lie and shift his hand and win for a time, but the universal master of the game checkmates him when, in some unguarded moment, he lays down his hand. There are great eternal rules in the game of life which must be regarded, and we violate these rules at our peril. Before we can begin to study the rules we have to learn that one-half of life is wholly dependent upon man. "The Lord hath need of thee" is written, and universal consciousness is everywhere waiting for men to manifest it. God has long since finished His work in this sphere. He waits now for the extending mind of man to receive and express the wider reaches of Divine intelligence. When we awaken to the first knowledge of the game of life and study the rules, we find four great rules set, and no amount of questioning, resistance or denial ever changes them. We can kick against them if we will, but our game grows less and less successful the longer we play it by other rules than the first rule of life. These are the four great rules in the game of life, and man must master them if he ever wishes to succeed. FIRST: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." SECOND: "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." THIRD: "Resist not evil." FOURTH: "Ask and ye shall receive, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you." No matter where we go we find the failure world playing this game of life by every rule but the right one. "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" the sky soul said, and yet the million of gods before which half the human race bows and worships, and from whom they beg assistance they "tread the self-same paths their fathers trod who knew not God they know not God." They have rested their whole hope in human powers and endowed human things, people and conditions with 63 all sorts of imaginary powers, enthroning them in their hearts and lives, surrounding them with impossible attributes, then, when the true law of these things becomes revealed, they are broken and desolate; they lose because they failed to play the game fair; they are the product of their own misguided interpretation. Out in the world of disease and lack, poverty and heart-break, these pe