Editorials

Most of us are pretty busy doing something. In the human order mortals are engaged in a wide variety of interests.

Does it occur to many of us that the will of God is a happy thing to contemplate? It is. It is joy-bringing.

Probably many mortals have a feeling akin to Ben Jonson when he wrote, "O, for an engine to keep back all clocks. " Yet clocks do not make time.

In the parable of the wheat and tares the servants of the householder were told to let both grow together until the harvest, lest in rooting up the worthless, they destroy the other also. Does this mean a call to procrastination, to the acceptance of a process which must take time and ensure delay? Not if we take it in conjunction with another statement by Jesus.

Of all religious festivals, what is more thought-stirring, hope-inspiring, and joy-bringing than Easter? "For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. " So run the poetic lines in Solomon's Song.

The average individual for the most part takes for granted the world in which he lives; he is more interested in effect than cause, in his own reactions and achievements than in seeking reasons for them. He therefore does not expect to analyze, far less take masterful possession of, the events and circumstances that appear to make or mar his life.

Our human environment includes many things. Some are trees, grass, flowers, animals, buildings, and machines.

Possibly much more than they realize, those who take their stand in a community as adherents of Christian Science are meticulously watched and their actions weighed by their fellows of differing faiths. Many people who stoutly maintain that they know nothing of and care less for this religion, show a startling familiarity with the Christian ideals for which it stands.

When some material object is made, for instance an automobile, it is first conceived in thought; drawings are made; materials are assembled, mechanical processes set to work; and the car is completed. The making is over; so many strokes and it is done; there is a beginning and an end of the making.

Christian Science honors those intellectual qualities which are guided by and subordinated to Spirit. The greatest intellects have always been the humblest.