Enthusiasm

that we can never really "get even" with anyone that our enemies are the instruments in the hands of our own law which we have endowed with power over us, and that when we think we are getting even with our enemies we find that we are settling old scores with our own soul. And it is not to them we have to answer, but to the Universal Rule and that has said, "Resist not evil." "If a man ask you to go a mile, go with him twain." Living a life of hate, resistance, condemnation and vengeance is playing off the universal law, and in order to fill our own true part there must be born in us understanding of life in the highest, the knowledge that the one life is in all and through all; then love will take the place of resistancelove for Godlove for manlove for ourselves, and success born of love is eternal. The Fourth Rule. "Ask and ye shall receive, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you." Faith without works is dead, and the one who wants to play the game of life to a tremendous finish must work! Jesus said "My Father works, and I work" and the very first thing anyone does who wants to be truly successful is to work for someone else quickly. The Universal Rule sets man at work at once, "ask" it says, the universal waits. Make known your desires in word, deed and thought; do something. "Whatsoever ye ask, believing that ye will receive, that shall ye receive." The Divine Intelligence takes every life at its own estimate, but in the face of this first great commandment men do not ask, they do not seek, they do not knock, the great law of service is unknown in their lives. Every day men speak themselves out of their hearts' desires. If we listen to the words of the failure multitude we will soon learn that by their words they are justified and condemned. They say, "what's the use?" "I know I can't," "There is nothing in it for me." "There is no use trying, I have tried and failed, I know I can't get it." "He wouldn't help me, business is awful," "I expect that I will lose," "I shall not try any more," "I am too old," "I hate life." Yet the rule of the game says: "Ask, seek, knock," but standing just before the doors they have closed by their own ignorance they turn away and in despair say: "I've played out, the game was never fair." The success of life means to gird on the whole armor of God-consciousness and to go out into the battle field, and move things into shape with a power born of a knowledge of the game. When we take our wa