Article April 3, 1902 Issue

Letter to a Mother

My Dear Friend:— Your exceedingly thoughtful letter received, and read with deep and earnest interest. It is evidence of your sincere and true love for the welfare and good of your boy. I can assure you that I have a great interest in his progress. We know that progress means a higher, more exalted condition, for progress is the sure reward for obeying the commands of the Master.

Your letter brings out clearly the true mother love, of which any son can well be proud. There is no love known to mankind, from the human standpoint, so true as mother-love, but we shall all soon know there is but one Father-Mother, and that is God. We are all His children, and are brothers and sisters. Jesus commanded us to call no one Father upon earth, for one is our Father in heaven,-harmony. This clearly establishes the relationship on the whole, and on a more everlasting, eternal plane, and when we understand our true relationship to God, we then, as recorded in the first chapter of Genesis, shall have dominion. Now, to have dominion means to be subject to only one Father. If we are running away from every little condition that confronts us in this world, these conditions have dominion, not we, which is contrary to the teachings of the Holy Scriptures. We are told that we must rise to the full stature of Christ Jesus, and know the Truth, and the Truth shall make us free. We know, as the Bible records, that God is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path, and we shall hear a voice behind us saying, "This is the way; walk ye in it." Our duty is to listen earnestly and prayerfully, and in meekness, for this voice, and when we walk in accordance with it, we find at the very threshold of our existence, light, health, progress, happiness, comfort, and everything that goes to make up the continuity of life. When we understand that the Principle of life is God, and we know there can be no impossibilities with God, we know this Principle is the same to-day, yesterday, and forever, it is applicable to us here and now; we can work out our own salvation by following the leading of this Principle.

It is just as applicable to our health and happiness as the mathematical problem is to mathematics. No one hesitates to say that the principle is capable of being worked in any altitude, latitude, or longitude, in any country, and that nothing interferes with it,—height nor depth, heat nor cold, and it resolves this into the fact that it is the same everywhere; and we all know that in proportion as one understands the principle of mathematics, he works the example with mathematical certainty and only in proportion that he does know the principle can he work out the problem

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