Editorial August 29, 1903 Issue

Keeping Awake

Alertness is the open eye and the listening ear of spiritual capacity. It unites with experience to raise ability to the righer level of availability, and thus opens the door to success.

In the seeming struggle with a false material sense, error's aim is to manacle, but it asks simply if it may hypnotize; needing no other concession it covets no other privilege, and this marks the seductive nature of those temptations to lethargy which are wont to appeal to us under some guise of comfort. They promise relaxation, relief, or increase of strength, and falsely estimating their value we are led into the very penumbra of death.

These temptations of mortal sense declare that escape from suffering is to be found in torpor, that break-downs are to be repaired while mortals are in a state of stupefaction, and some of these means of benumbing sense have been named providential. But Truth ever cries, "Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."

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