Law Of Attraction
Why can we not learn to so live during this brief earthly visit that when the
great Caravan called Death draws up and announces this visit
completed we will be ready to fold our tents and silently follow out into
the great unknown without fear and trembling?
I am hoping that I will find no Jews or Gentiles, Catholics or
Protestants, Germans, Englishmen or Frenchmen when I shall have
crossed the bar to the other side.
I am hoping that I will find there only human Souls, Brothers and Sisters all, unmarked by race, creed or color, for I shall want to be done with intolerance so I may rest in peace throughout eternity.
YOU will see at the top of the previous page a picture which describes the futility of combat. The two male deer have engaged in a fight to the finish, each believing that he will be the winner. Off at the side the female awaits the victor, little dreaming that tomorrow the bones of both combatants will be bleaching in the sun. "Poor foolish animals," someone will say.
Perhaps, but not very different from the man family. Man engages his brothers in mortal combat because of competition. The three major forms of competition are sex, economic and religious in nature. Twenty years ago a great educational institution was doing a thriving business and rendering a worthy service to thousands of students. The two owners of the school married two beautiful and talented young women, who were especially accomplished in the art of piano playing.
The two wives became involved in an argument as to which one was the more accomplished in this art. The disagreement was taken up by each of the husbands. They became bitter enemies. Now the bones of that once prosperous school "lie bleaching in the sun."
The two bucks shown in the picture above locked horns over the attention of the doe. The two "man bucks" locked horns over the selfsame impulse. In one of the great industrial plants two young foremen "locked horns" because one received a promotion which the other believed he should have had. For more than five years the silent undertow of hatred and intolerance showed itself.
The men under each of the foremen became inoculated with
the spirit of dislike, which they saw cropping out in their superiors.
Slowly the spirit of retaliation began to spread over the entire plant. The
men became divided into little cliques.
Production began to fall off. Then came financial difficulty and finally bankruptcy for the company. Now the bones of a once prosperous business "lie bleaching in the sun," and the two foremen and several thousand others were compelled to start all over again, in another field.