MEEKNESS! Probably no quality has been less understood. Yet progress demands a correct apprehension of the term, for meekness is an essential element of progress. For long men have ascribed to meekness such characteristics as weakness and submissiveness. As a consequence, efforts to discover the true properties of meekness have been somewhat thwarted.
The Master said, "I am meek and lowly in heart;" and Christian Science comes revealing the real nature of meekness, creating a desire for it and establishing an unfailing means of obtaining it.
In the face of Scripture it cannot be denied that the quality of meekness is a spiritual quality which should be demonstrated in the experience of each individual. In Numbers it is written, "Now the man Moses was very meek;" and Paul admonished Timothy, "But thou, 0 man of God, . . . follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness." One who has studied the careers of Moses and Paul cannot regard these men as weak or submissive. Indeed, they were men who possessed firm spiritual convictions, courage, strength, untold vigor and vitality. Each led a life so colorful that present-day thinkers are finding their recorded experiences both inspiring and invigorating. Yet these men were meek. They recognized meekness as a necessary and essential element of their well-being and success. Wherein, then, lay their meekness?
