Editorial September 11, 1909 Issue

"HUMAN CAPACITIES."

Annie M. Knott

In Science and Health we read that "Moses advanced a nation to the worship of God in Spirit instead of matter, and illustrated the grand human capacities of being bestowed by immortal Mind" (p. 200). This statement turns the light of Truth upon the pages of human history, and points to the fact that every truly great character has owed its greatness to some recognition of divine power as controlling the destinies of mankind, and also to some sense, however imperfect, of spiritual reality. The pages of the Bible are illumined records of the lives of those who rose from obscurity to greatness because their capacities were "enlarged and perfected" (Ibid., p. 258) by communion with the Mind that governs the universe. Thus Moses the shepherd became the great lawgiver and the deliverer of a race from cruel bondage. Of him a poet says,—

This was the truest warrior
That ever buckled sword;
This the most gifted poet
That ever breathed a word.
And never earth's philosopher
Traced with his golden pen,
On the deathless page, truths half so sage,
As he wrote down for men.