Absolute and has no position at all, yet everything is crying out in him and through those near and dear to him for the sustenance that he still feels must come by the law of cause and effect, what then?

The same rule of the word applies to him as to others; but more than anything else let him attend to the spirit of rich service and divine guidance within him.

Perhaps there has been too much running to and fro and whipping of oneself into strenuous search after work with, all the time, a sense of the uselessness of it. Then it is wise to wait, like Mary of Bethany, who “sat in the house” until the (inner) message was brought: “The Teacher is here, and calleth thee.” An illustration of this from a Truth student’s experience will serve best to convey the instruction intended.

A man whose wife had been healed of a severe case of rheumatism had long been out of work because of his appetite for drink, which had not only caused him to be discharged from many good positions but had drawn upon him most bitter invectives from his last employer, We had suffered certain losses through his failing. The “Captain,” as he was called, swore at him and told him never to show his face in his (the Captain’s) place again.

But through his wife’s spiritual treatments the man had been wholly healed of his intemperance,