Editorial January 9, 1943 Issue

My Brother's Keeper

Peter V. Ross

Thought is continuous. It knows no interruption. Every individual has within himself an example of perpetual motion—his thinking. In swift succession does thought run to things, events, ideas, people.

Usually one elects to think justly, constructively, compassionately; but on occasion, if not alert, one may descend to intolerant, destructive, even hateful thinking. The quality of his thought has much to do with a person's well-being, obviously, and not a little to do with the well-being of those on whom his thought rests. Manifestly he can benefit others and the world generally by his spiritual thinking.

Cain's shifty interrogation, "Am I my brother's keeper?" cannot be answered in the negative. No man lives to himself. His thoughts and purposes extend beyond his own premises. He has a responsibility not only for what he thinks about himself but for what he thinks about his neighbor, his nation, his church, and his God. The Golden Rule is as imperative in the mental realm as it is in the world of action.

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