articles—by turning to God and placing your problems, your mistakes, yea even your sins, in His keeping; trusting all to His loving mercy, truly and humbly surrendering yourself, all that you are and have to Him, caring only that you may henceforth do His will and be guided by Him at all times.

That is the first step. Those who are ready to do that, and who need help, as many do, will find the way clearly pointed for them in THE WAY OUT Course of Study. Therein is shown how to “think only the thoughts and do only the things that God wants me to think,” and will have proved to their minds’ satisfaction that “God loves and cares for me and is giving me all good things”—when they are thus prepared to open themselves to His guidance so they can hear His loving Voice.

All this is to prepare you and your mind to know what are God’s thoughts and His Way for you—to know what is the Truth, so that when trouble or danger assails you will at once turn to Him and can give to Him a perfect and actual trust. Then you will be able to know the Truth of those words spoken above by our friend, and to speak them fearlessly and calmly:

“Stop! Peace! Be still! and know that God lives in this home. Where He is, no harm can come. In the Name of Jesus Christ, go your way in peace!”

And you will know, even as our friend knew, that God will hear and protect you from all harm—even by sending His Son, Jesus Christ, to show you the power of His Name.

WHEN Moses led the Children of Israel through the wilderness, seeking the Promised Land, those children are just the same as are the children of men today. They remembered the fleshpots of Egypt; they kept thinking and longing for the pleasures they had experienced in the past. They also thought of all the hardships.

But the Promised Land was hidden from their eyes and they thought then, even as the children of today, that all they needed to do was to step out and away from Egypt and they would soon be in the land of milk and honey.

When that land that had been promised them did not appear and they were compelled to wander for forty years and to endure