have the burden of taking care of it all,--for the one always involves
the other,--or to come into the knowledge of such laws and forces that
every need will be supplied in good time, to know that no good thing
shall be withheld, to know that we have it in our power to make the
supply always equal to the demand?

The one who enters into the realm of this higher knowledge, never cares
to bring upon himself the species of insanity that has such a firm hold
upon so many in the world today. He avoids it as he would avoid any
loathsome disease of the body. When we come into the realization of
the higher powers, we will then be able to give more attention to the
real life, instead of giving so much to the piling up of vast
possessions that hamper rather than help it. It is the medium ground
that brings the true solution here, the same as it is in all phases of
life.

Wealth beyond a certain amount cannot be used, and when it cannot be
used it then becomes a hindrance rather than an aid, a curse rather
than a blessing. All about us are persons with lives now stunted and
dwarfed who could make them rich and beautiful, filled with a perennial
joy, if they would begin wisely to use that which they have spent the
greater portion of their lives in accumulating.

The man who accumulates during his entire life, and who leaves even all
when he goes out for "benevolent purposes," comes far short of the
ideal life. It is but a poor excuse of a life. It is not especially
commendable in me to give a pair of old, worn-out shoes that I shall
never use again to another who is in need of shoes. But it is
commendable, if indeed doing anything we ought to do can be spoken of
as being commendable, it is commendable for me to give a good pair of
strong shoes to the man who in the midst of a severe winter is
practically shoeless, the man who is exerting every effort to earn an
honest living and thereby take care of his family's needs. And if in
giving the shoes I also give myself, he then has a double gift, and I a
double blessing.

There is no wiser use that those who have great accumulations can make
of them than wisely to put them into life, into character, _day by day
while they live_. In this way their lives will be continually enriched
and increased. The time will come when it will be regarded as a
disgrace for a man to die and leave vast accumulations behind him.

Many a person is living in a palace today who in the real lif