thing of value
coming to each member of this greater whole comes as such to him, for
he has a part in the life of each and all.

And here let a word be said in regard to true service. Peter and John
were one day going up to the temple, and as they were entering the gate
they were met by a poor cripple who asked them for alms. Instead of
giving him something to supply the day's needs and then leaving him in
the same dependent condition for the morrow and the morrow, Peter did
him a real service, and a real service for all mankind by saying,
Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have I give unto thee. _And
then he made him whole_. He thus brought him into the condition where
he could help himself. In other words, the greatest service we can do
for another is to help him to help himself. To help him directly might
be weakening, though not necessarily. It depends entirely upon
circumstances. But to help one to help himself is never weakening, but
always encouraging and strengthening, because it leads him to a larger
and stronger life.

There is no better way to help one to help himself than to bring him to
a knowledge of himself. There is no better way to bring one to a
knowledge of himself than to lead him to a knowledge of the powers that
are lying dormant within his own soul. There is nothing that will
enable him to come more readily or more completely into an awakened
knowledge of the powers that are lying dormant within his own soul,
than to bring him into the conscious, vital realization of his oneness
with the Infinite Life and Power, so that he may open himself to it in
order that it may work and manifest through him.

We will find that these same great truths lie at the very bottom of the
solution of our social situation; and we will also find that we will
never have a full and permanent solution of it until they are fully
recognized and built upon.

WISDOM AND INTERIOR ILLUMINATION.

This is the Spirit of Infinite Wisdom, and in the degree that we open
ourselves to it does the highest wisdom manifest itself to and through
us. We can in this way go to the very heart of the universe itself and
find the mysteries hidden to the majority of mankind,--hidden to them,
though not hidden of themselves.

In order for the highest wisdom and insight we must have absolute
confidence in the Divine guiding us, but not through the channel of some
one else. And why should we go to another for knowledg