Enthusiasm

r getting rich in order to attain knowledge." Another says, "I cannot serve two masters, so I renounced the life of pleasure for that of service." Oh, the pity of it! Don't you see where they went wrong? They gather at the harvest what they sow, and there is no reason why they should not have gathered the fullness of all their desires if they had only known. The life that sows service, pleasure, joy, peace, money, power and every hope of its soul, will gather the compensation of its sowing in some way or another, day by day, because it is the unchanging law of the Infinite substance. The human mind has limited itself; it has distorted the soul vision and forgotten the eternal promise "seek and ye shall find." To plant for the highest compensation is a matter of growth. Look deeply into your own lives and find out just what you want, then ask yourselves if you are ready to pay the price for it? If you are ready, then consecrate yourselves to it and all that the consecration brings, and when you are looking for returns or recompense, be sure that you recognize your own when it comes. Do not limit yourselves; take with you into this consecration everything that you want, and then do not complain of what you are called upon to pay for your gifts. Whatever comes to you in this consecration belongs to the path you consciously chose; do not repine, but turn again and again in loving consecration, and soon you will come to that place where love of, or care for, compensation ceases, everything becomes a labor of love, or only the "work of Him who sent you," and toil and tears will be swallowed up in the joy of Divine compensation. "Unanswered yet; nay do not say ungranted, Perhaps thy work has not yet all been done. That work began when your first prayer was uttered, And God will finish what be has begun. If you will keep the incense burning brightly there, His glory you shall see, some day, somewhere."