MANY A SOUL is lonely and neglected because he has never thought of comforting the lonely one, the neglected one.

Many a soul is in poverty, in friendlessness, in disgrace, in unhappiness, because he has failed in his day of joy, of fulfillment, to think of the unhappy one, of the lonely one who might have been blessed by his thought, by his prayer, by his compassion.

Many souls are not blessed with joys because they have not earned them. Others are not blessed with joys because they misused them.

All that we obtain, all that we have is given us that we may pass it on, multiply it many fold, radiate it forth in its blessings to other souls.

We are not beings who are to retain, repress, withhold, but beings who should be as an eternal, flowing river, that a cargo of God's sunshine and blessings may be forever borne forth to the great sea of life beyond us, to the souls who are in darkness, to the souls who are drifting rudderless, to the ships that pass in the shadows.

These blessings which we possess are but potentialities, are but embryonic states of possibilities, are but acorns that give promise of the great, broad, shading power of the oak.

If we forget and clutch to our heart our blessings, if we hide our light beneath the bushel, surely it will be unfed. Surely the ones in darkness will watch and wait and be no more for us.

It is according to our use of our blessings that our blessings increase and renew. It is according to our use of love, to the use we make of the love that is given us, of the blessings that surround us, of the help that is yielded us that we are judged. And if we do not use our powers for good, if we do not open them wide, through a broad channel, to serve or to unfetter. they decrease. and stagnant becomes the water of the pool that docs not flow.

That which would refresh and quench and purify us becomes impure, congested, clogged back by our selfishness. our thoughtlessness, our indolence, be whatever the cause, if we do not see to it that that which is ours belongs to all humanity, that that which comforts us, comforts others, that that which strengthens us and illumines us is for al as well as for us. And until we have learned that if we would know joy we must give joy, until we truly believe that it is in giving and not in receiving, that it is in serving, not in being served, we find our blessings. Until we learn that the dignity of a servant is equal to the dignity of a monarch, until we realize that their offices are one and the same. The greatest ruler has ever been the greatest servant, and the greater dignity we can conceive for ourselves is that of serving.

Let us accept gratitude only for that which we deserve. and call forth the love, the respect, the confidence, and the trust of others by that integrity and absolute truth of quality which is the positive and irresistible magnet, drawing to us the divine potentialities of every soul that contacts a true exemplar of this life. For if we can call forth faith, love, strength and nobility from others by the example of our life, by our worthiness of their faith and trust in us, we have lifted others in sustaining ourselves. Let everyone avoid the habit of craving praise undeserved.

Service renders you eligible to the storehouse of God. where "all that the Father hath is thine.” You can enter the Father's mansion only by the consciousness of your services being truly well done. Service cleaves a mighty channel through which the ocean of life may flow, and upon it ever is bound the cargo of God's loving blessings.

Service is the most wonderful healer and revealer that we know, in its practical usefulness, in its irresistible force which overcomes all obstacles and renders subject to it the strength, wisdom and love of God. For these aspects of Divine Mind are essentially servants of God. Love serves, strength serves, wisdom serves. Service is the acme of attainment for the human soul, for the divine soul. For the child of the Living God, who has indeed fulfilled his duty well, is upon the right hand of the Father, which is in heaven.

If the complaining soul who site alone in his corner bemoaning his loneliness, his state in poverty, in friendlessness, in the deprivations of the joys which he covets, which he sees others enjoying: if he, I say could forget his lack in his compassion for the lack of others, if he would turn to the hungry one and strive to feed it with that food which it needs, be it food or raiment or spiritual comfort, if he would busy himself reading to the blind, encouraging the discouraged, carrying flowers to the maimed, if he would turn his energy to noble, spontaneous service to one who needs it, he would break down the walls which shut him out from the paradise of heaven, he would render nil the loneliness, the helplessness, the discouragements of his life, and in swinging himself far out into the deep current of life, with its opportunities to exchange blessings, he would find himself, in that consciousness of unity and cooperation to which he has been so long a stranger.

If the individual who feels lack most deeply and sees no way to bring himself the fulfilment of his life, if he, instead of in complaint, in the spirit of believing that the world owes him relief, comfort or service, if he would but remember that as he gives so he receive: that he must make a channel before there can be a flow through him toward the fulfillment of his desire: that the being who seeks to serve, establishes within himself a positive and irresistible magnet for the service of others : that the soul who wills to comfort makes of himself a magnet by which he receives comfort from others: that the soil who seeks wisdom, who seeks to know that he may lift others up: that he who seeks to lift himself that he may lift others, shall indeed unite with the powers of the Infinite, which serve him on his holy course toward fulfilment and realization.

Never permit yourself to be thwarted - never believe that when you come to the end of the path fulfilling your own, gratifying your own present desire that it is an end. It is only a beginning of an opportunity to seek expression for another.

Perhaps you have been too long gathering to yourself, or desiring to do so, until you have made a dam instead of a channel through which might flow the blessings that you covet.