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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18614, 16 November 1928, Page 9

The subject of a lecture given at the Jellicoe Hall to an attentive audience by Mary E. Simpson, C. 5.8., was. “Don’t be Slaves to Unemployment and Poverty.” The lecturer said: “To be slaves to what God did not create is ignorant foolishness. His creation was good, so He did not create disease. Unemployment and poverty are types of disease, they are mental conditions. Man is a mental being, the manifestation of eternal Mind; within him are the germs of prosperity and success, which, if not yet, may be evolved through the understanding of divine law. Not knowing this, men believe their chances of work and success depend upon their fellow-men. They blame Governments, capitalists, luck, slump, etc., for their unemployment and poverty, and so accentuate their own miseries. ‘ The kingdom of heaven is within you,’ said the great Reformer. Man’s dominion over adversity is ever within him, as is his power over af) forms of evil. When man knows and applies it, he need not be poor and Out of work.”