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teach us to realize and to do, leaving nothing undone. This tenth lesson is on the subject of making your work tell, making it stay by you making it as definitely good, and as alive in its good, as your own soul.
It has always been noted by metaphysicians that people who have diseases as the result of their sinfulness do not get well as quickly as those who simply catch maladies from surrounding mental belief in disease. The whole process is unreality, and the idea that people do not give up sin readily is only an imagination. When one imagines that there is a mixture of good and evil in the universe, he is sure to see a great deal of good and evil. If he lets his mind balance on the gloomy side, more than on the joyous side, he will see more evil conditions than good in his lot. He will not touch the tenth lesson. He will not see his world record joyousness, if he does not put joyousness forth from his mind as a steady stream into the world.
Moses said, "Let the earth bring forth cattle and creeping things." Earth means mind when it is formulated by persistent thought. The bringing forth of mind is "cattle" which is a symbolic word for larger human relations, like governments, schools, homes, friends, family. "Creeping things," is a term signifying affairs like business, daily tasks, eating, drinking, sleeping. These things, says the text, come forth in a new beauty by the persistent thinking of new truths, cheerful breaths from the Spirit of the Supreme Cheer.
All the world, and our close family relations, are Good beyond good. Let the mind see good step by step. From mountain peak to mountain peak let lofty ideas spring, never forgetting the splendor of one peak, but ever onward. Thus it is with the lessons of Science. One lesson seems to be all. The next takes us to another statement of Truth. The next still on, till the twelve gates of Truth are opened.
Our conscious, wide-awake thoughts, never off guard, must
