Article August 31, 1981 Issue

Easy Street?

CHANNING WALKER

In my neighborhood the number of people with high-paying jobs is small. But the number of people betting on the numbers game and the races is big. A sign, "One way to EA$Y STREET," points to where you can make bets. The bets can be small, as little as fifty cents. But the odds against winning are big—five hundred to one, or worse. Nearly everyone loses much more than he ever wins. But knowing that doesn't always make it easy to stop betting.

Getting off that "street" and getting onto the road of certain and definite good is something worth aiming for.

There is good reason for hope. Not hope that is tied to something chancy, like gambling, but hope that is rooted in good itself. God is good. His laws are spiritual and definite and good. He has no laws of chance, and His power supports none. He is all-powerful divine Love, and in His universe there is only what expresses Him. Each one of us is in fact the very reflection of this infinite Love, the eternal beneficiary of the law of unending good.

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