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Aladdin's lamp, which is really the POWER OF DEMAND. The rubbing of this lamp, which brings one's desires to pass, is the action of the mind in affirming the DEMAND. Then, too, each child has the ability to cooperate with the lamp by using hand and brain to give to the world a fair equivalent for its share of gold from the mine. This would be a poor world indeed, a world of beggars, if things we desire could be had for the asking, for as Channing wisely said:

"If Man could live on acorns alone he would gather his store, lie down under a tree until his store was exhausted, when he would gather more acorns and lie down again." The Universal Intelligence knows that Man requires a stimulus to effort, and it fills him with multitudinous desires, making him work to actualize them.

But often the very best work does not bring its equivalent in gold, and that is where the New Thought Aladdin's lamp helps to bring to us our just reward. To know that we are one with God and therefore the world is ours and the fulness thereof, is to rub the lamp so that OUR OWN MAY COME TO US, IF WE WORK FOR IT.

God gives Himself in Health to His Children

You cannot think of God as diseased or weak, can you? The Infinite cannot be bound by weakness or disease, else would it not be infinite. In "The Wisdom of Solomon" it is written:

"For God made not death, neither hath He pleasure in the destruction of the living.

"For He created all things that they might