AS I SAT in physical, mental and spiritual silence, it was as though a heavy curtain were drawn aside and a vision commenced to unfold.

In it I saw myself as one of a band of Workers. We were not working together, but were separated, in different places; but all were clearly conscious of each other. We were in a very large city. The congestion of both people and traffic was intense, strain and hurry seemed to reign, and among the crowds only a very few faces were calm, the others appearing tense, tired and old, their bodies keyed to race through life with the milling crowds—seeking what? Seeking the idols which self craved, the idols of money, fame, name, wealth, possessions, ease and comfort, which would “someday” enable them to live in idleness.

Each of the Workers was silently, lovingly and most unostentatiously going about the Father’s Business among these demoralising conditions. Many listened, but few answered to the Call. There were those who seemed interested in the messages, but because they did not fit into their ideas or way of living, they turned away, to seek, in their ignorance until they were unable to discern the false from the true.

There were others who came to be entertained, but the simplicity of the teaching did not attract them. Some came to find a panacea for every thing; for health, wealth, peace of mind and contentment of heart; but were almost angry when they learned there was something they had to do to win these desires.

Nearly all of these seekers we found in the more prosperous parts of the city, but among the poor we found the tired hands and the weary hearts, broken through hunger and discouragement, mind-sick from the hopeless battle of life; most of them ready to grasp at anything which would ameliorate their condition, too tired to resist or even to have any ideas of their own.

Yes, there were times when some of them had heard a lecturer, read some book, sought something from a teacher; all of which claimed to be the last word, and the whole of truth, or promised to give them the golden key with which they could open the gate