Self Help

, and not personal but who links their life with the personal will have to fight their way through the changes of men and things until they become the example of their own game of life. Here is a story, homely and unadorned, which shows the full measure of man's transgression of the true rules of the game of supply. A certain woman owned a chicken farm and took keen delight in feeding the chickens. One of her primitive observations was this: She said that she would take a big pan of feed to the chickens' yard and set it down right in the center in easy reach of the hens. Then this was what would follow: A few hens would be first at the pan and getting their mouths full of the good things in the pan, would run away to the corner of the yard; then the other remaining hens would come up and seeing the hens with their beaks full of food would run after them, and pretty soon there would be a scramble all over the yard, hens struggling with hens for the tiny scraps in 64 their mouths, picking, fighting, running, while the big pan, with its overflowing mess, was standing untouched in the center of the yard waiting for the return of the angry fowls. The woman said, "These chickens are just like humans out in the world, fighting to take the little human possessions from each other, while the great universal waits with its opulence to give to anyone who comes." And again, she said, "If they had emptied the pan I was ready and willing to get another panful, but they wore themselves out scrambling over the bits." No truer tale ever was told and when men play the game of supply by such false rules (and they do so every day) they must fail because it is the inevitable end of the game. We are receivers, creators, and distributors, and must play our own perfect part of the universal game. God, the great Universal Life, has provided some better things for us, that they, without us, cannot be made perfect. The second rule is equally important. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," and yet the weary failure world goes on every hour thinking fear, anger, resistance, condemnation, poverty and disease. There is little hope for a final winning in the game if with every move the player breaks their own law of power. Faith is an all-abiding necessity according to the universal rule: Faith in God, faith in man, and faith in our own power: To think the thoughts which will give ourselves the environment, people, everything just as we would have them this is the great c