The major jewel in the crown of wisdom is discrimination. All possess wisdom to a greater or lesser degree; all have access to the boundless resources of love, truth and strength. Yet it is through discrimination that we find the means to utilize constructively, these wonderful aspects of divine mind.

Who has not used his strength indiscriminately, or truth carelessly, or love indulgently, and then, in cowardice failed to use the faith he should have induced?

Who has deeply contemplated the importance of developing discrimination to any great degree? Yet it is essential that we know how to unfold, use and direct the great possibilities - to express them symmetrically and perfectly.

We must know that the selfish, grasping individual is many times weakened by an indiscriminate love, a baseless faith or a wilful determination to express love indulgently, or truth hampered by conditional use.

The being who realizes that these sacred possessions of his nature are a charge for which he is responsible; that he can let them slumber in his depth for time indefinite, or call forth the love of his nature to express its atonement with the creator, knows when to open the flood gates of his strength and sweep away all obstacles.

Such an one, through practicing discrimination, learns when not to fail with his love; when to serve another with what he needs at that time in his evolution.

One who has learned the value of that jewel - -discrimination - has also learned the lesson of consistency, learned to construct symmetrically, build on the rock eternal.

The individual who knows how to broaden his mind with his faith, his base with his love, his strength with his wisdom, has learned a mighty lesson and what he acquires dwells with his soul.

We find beings enmeshed in love which they have not sustained with their wisdom. They misrepresent, stoop to unprincipled acts in an attempt to shield those they think they love. Yet this is not a wholesome love, for love is inseparable from and courage. It never stoops to subterfuge, to fear or to pretense, or anything based upon less than the highest principles.

The wise one knows that he cannot afford to express his nature through channels less than true, tried and loving.

The one who believes that he is loving when he indulges other souls in their weakness, is unworthy and faithless to the degree that he lacks the strength to refuse or to act.

One who is capable of carrying to sublime heights, a great ideal without discrimination, is also capable of destroying a great deal. He can use love to shield his unworthiness, to gratify the ignoble cravings of self or another.

When love of self or of another becomes limited by prejudice or partiality, when it becomes less than a principle, it is that quality, which when perverted, destroys as truly as it created when the attitude was constructive.

The fire which can warm the suffering one can also burn that one. the light which gives sight to the blind, can also blind its seer.

The being who knows the love which never faileth, and with discrimination constructs, inspires and exhorts other souls to heights, stands as an example of good.

Set high the ideals. Live lives of service and hold to the consciousness that the keynote of this philosophy is CAUSE. The law, immutable and absolutely just, demands perfect causation if one would have perfect results, perfect seeds sown to reap a perfect harvest.

I again declare it is impossible for a soul to be reaping results which have not been caused, and only he who has caused can reap.

If the energy spent in rebellion against the inevitable law of being were spent in the development of discrimination and the expression of one's true nature, if the search for wisdom, love and strength were ardently pursued, the soul who was rebellious, would find this his hour of thanksgiving and praise.

So to him who is on the path seeking the light, seeking the qualities and the expression of his divine nature, I would say, "Abide, be patient and develop your power of discrimination that you may see cause and effect in their true relation." Believe, O Soul, that it is true that he who has never missed an opportunity to bless, to serve, to give, will not suffer a disappointment when his needs arise, for those who have the privilege of serving him will give blessings and pleasures joyfully, for they have been earned.

If in a time of trial you see about you those you feel might lend aid, yet they refuse, look back in your own heart for the cause instead of believing the fault to be theirs. Perhaps you have not set in motion a cause which should bring help from this hand. Per haps you sowed tares instead of wheat. You may have neglected others; and today, when you seek favors you are neglected. They were not caused, so they cannot be reaped.

A being has a small consciousness if he cannot see that if he be lifted up he will lift others; that in serving others he serves himself, and that the joy of giving equals the joy of getting.

The law is just, consistent and no respecter of persons. Unfortunate is he who does not know that life is conditioned in motion and that action is the law of his nature - inaction death.

Every moment he is to serve or be served. No opportunity is to be lost or ignored. The individual who has not discovered that perfect justice - the Golden Rule (doing unto others as he would be done by) - is poor indeed, for it is the safest, sanest principle of symmetrical growth.

One whose ongoing is impersonal, joys in the joy of others, and serves every needy being with that wise discrimination which indulges not weakness, but induces strength, courage and self reliance. Giving perhaps of his inspiration, which is more than material aid, money or bread. If alms be asked of such a soul, he turns within and calls into activity the attributes of his divine mind. Then he makes no mis take as to what kind of help should be given. His life is indeed a Glory to God in the Highest.

Each soul should seek to find the deep joy that comes from wise, true service. One should not act because it seems inevitable, or he is too weak to resist the demand, or is too untrue to himself to stand for principle, but because he was created in the image of God, having the wisdom, power and love of a God, he knows what to do what to say. what to be to those in need. He is all things to all men through his quick intuition, which is the rightful inheritance of a child of God.