I WOULD be glad now if the workers would treat against the combinations of labor and capital which are not only unfair to the public, but to the people concerned themselves.

A man cannot join a combination to do wrong towards an individual, or individuals, without suffering from the result of such wrong doing. It is true that sometimes the punishment is not noticeable, either by the individual concerned, or the people who know him, otherwise people would soon stop doing wrong. This is because the punishment very often is of quite a different character to the wrong done.

A rich man will often be known to be doing wrong by those associated with him, and yet he does not come within the clutches of the law, and he does not seem to have any punishment. This is merely because we do not see the skeleton in the cupboard. I have often been told of evil being done by wealthy people who appeared to be perfectly happy. Any one who, like myself, is approached by people in trouble, will tell you quite a different story. One of the leading clergymen in London, one who I suppose has more people in difficulty coming to see him than any one else of any standing, told me that he would never believe a man’s life was satisfactory unless he knew every detail of it.

The reason for this is that the punishment does not follow the crime that is done, but it follows the crime of the wrong thought. With one man, his only son, whom he adores, is going to the devil, and everything he does merely seems to make things worse. Another, ostensibly a multimillionaire and the owner of a large amount of property, has over-traded, and at any moment may have a run upon his bank and be made bankrupt. Another man who looks equally sound, as a matter of fact may see financial ruin staring him in the face, with a prospect of jail through illegal actions. Another man is dying of cancer and is in pain every day, but bears it with a bold face; and a fifth man madly loves some one with whom he is in daily contact, and she loathes him and shows it.

Mortal mind has many means of punishment in hell, for we punish ourselves by our own wrong thoughts, and one of the proofs of this being hell is that we get just as much punished on account of ignorance as on account of sin.

The particular troubles for which help is wanted at present are the conspiracies to restrict trade, and the conspiracies to raise the price of articles and the cost of work done for the public. These manifestations of greed are very wide spread.

The other difficulty is amongst the workers. If they would confine themselves to strikes, people would not complain; but the unions interfere with the freedom of the men, and not only force the management to take back men they have dismissed on account of incompetence, but do not allow the workmen to work to the full amount of which they are capable. Then again, machines are not allowed to be used unless the user of the machines pays to the men an amount equal to the amount saved by the machine in wages.

The difficulty at the bottom of it all is that people think they can help themselves whilst harming others, which is an absolute fallacy. In order to get the best for ourselves we must put our fellowmen first, and do what is best for him. This is now recognized in the leading businesses.

We cannot, however, do this always unless we know how to pray. Then when fear is eliminated with prayer, it is always best to do what the other man wants. The principal thing to work for is Love, so that we want to do what the other man wants us to do. Then he wants to do what we would like him to do. In some cases we must also treat for justice, so that neither we nor the other man asks for anything which is unfair.

Men think that by reducing the amount of work done by each man they increase the amount of work available for other men, whereas as a matter of fact this is not the case. As you reduce the cost of articles, you increase the demand, within certain limits; and as you increase the demand for one article, as a rule the demand for other articles increases.

As mentioned the principal thing to work for is Love. In working for a thing always begin by the realization of God. God is Love, and man reflects that Love and is loving towards all.

Then you can realize that God is the Principle of all Justice, and that man is always just, always doing what is right. Man cannot limit the output, because God’s ideas continually unfold to man and are continually re-presented to his fellow man in their entirety.

Man does perfect and glorious work, grouping together God’s ideas into perfect combinations which radiate out in infinite Mind, giving infinite beings joy and happiness. There is no mortal mind to stop that action, for there is only one Mind, God, and the unfoldment and re-presentation of the ideas is the action of that Mind.

There is no over-production, because the ideas of God unfold with perfect sequence and are re-presented with perfect sequence, idea after idea. Man cannot think that there can be over-production, for God is Truth and man knows Truth.

There is no greed, for man has everything he needs; he cannot possibly take away anything from his fellow man, on the contrary he is always passing on God’s ideas to his fellowman and receiving ideas in exchange which give him infinite joy and happiness.—F. L. Rawson, from Bulletin No. 11.