manager, servant; and so the financial problem is His, not mine. I find, the greater the surrender, the greater the peace that possesses me.

You asked in your last letter why I considered dismissing a servant for dishonesty was against the principles of your teachings, and asked also how else she was to learn. This I can only interpret as a question put to ascertain how far I have grasped your teaching.

The Mosaic law, like our own penal code, simply consists of retaliatory measures—an eye for an eye, punishment follows crime, and fear of punishment is the only preventive of crime. It is almost revengeful in action, and has in it nothing of love. Under the law the dishonest girl should simply be punished for her fault.

Christ’s teaching goes much higher; under it we are taught to pray for those who wrong us, to love and help them in every way—not to avenge our wrongs. “He who would take away thy coat, let him take thy cloak also,”—evidently meaning that he should trust God to provide another cloak. Christ must have known that Judas took the disciples money from the bag, but it does not appear that He took any measures to prevent him, nor informed the authorities, nor punished him Himself. It does not appear either that the disciples lacked anything, or were made poorer. Judas had no power to prevent God’s providing for His servants’ needs, take what he would.

The teachings given out through your books go higher still. In them we are taught that “Whatsoever man sees that is less than good and perfect is only what man thinks is so.” And again, “For the world as you see it (meaning the people, etc. about you) is really only the sum total of the thoughts that fill your mind, it being impossible for you to see anything of which you have not built a picture in your mind. It is these pictures that you see, and which are all that you see.”

Therefore my girl is dishonest only because of my thought of her, and all that is necessary to change her, is to change my thought of her, to see her as honest, believe her to be honest—believe that God in her will be as I see her to be.

This is not far from Christ’s teaching really, when He taught that “Whatsoever things ye pray and ask for, believe that ye