to all our commercial as well as our social relationships.

We have not been more successful in making this doctrine of
Jesus a practical standard for everyday guidance because we
have not understood the law on which it is based. Jesus
would not have put forth a doctrine that was not true and
not based on unchanging law, and we can be sure that this
doctrine of giving and receiving is powerful enough to
support all the affairs of civilization. We have not gone
deeply enough into the teaching but have thought we
understood it from a mere surface study. "Ye look at the
things that are before your face," says Paul, and Jesus
also warned us to "judge not according to appearance." We
should form no conclusions until we have gone thoroughly
into the causes and the underlying laws. The things we see
outwardly are the effects that have arisen from causes that
are invisible to us. There is an inner and an outer to
everything: both the mental and the material conditions
pervade the universe. Man slides at will up and down the
whole gamut of cause and effect. The whole race slides into
an effect almost unconsciously and so identifies the senses
with the effect that the causes are lost sight of for
thousands of years.

An awakening comes in time and the cause side of existence
is again brought to the attention of men, as set forth, for
example, in the doctrine of Jesus Christ. But men cannot
grasp the great truth in a moment and cling to what is
plainly visible to them, the effect side. The truth that
things have a spiritual