Article July 23, 1910 Issue

To my sense of things, the remedy for the condition that...

Sue H. Mims

Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution

To my sense of things, the remedy for the condition that faces us [the negro problem] demands more than schools, or reformatories, or prisons. These all, doubtless, are helps, but the demand is for a higher Christianization, for spirituality, consecration, devotion on the part of each and every individual Christian. If every Christian had the zeal of Paul, so to fix his gaze on the attainment of spiritual understanding that he could say with him, "I count all things but loss... that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection," then the outlook would brighten.

If our affections were so fixed on things above, not on things on the earth, that selfishness, pride, avarice, and greed were quenched in the divine essence of unselfishness, the spiritual love that seeketh not her own, but another's good, that thinketh no evil,—if endeavor to acquire the unsearchable, imperishable "riches of Christ" were to supersede the striving for the vain and perishable, what would result?

Would it not absolutely change the atmosphere of thought and environment? What, also, if every Christian on earth today should grasp and even partly realize that God is a divine ever-presence, in which "we live, and move, and have our being;" that God is the all-inclusive Mind that was with Christ Jesus, and that we are commanded to have this same Mind, and that there is but the one governing Mind, that is, God, or good, who made all that was made and pronounced it good,—if all would know that this Mind is Love, what would happen? Such a flood of love and light and joy would radiate throughout all consciousness, such wisdom, justice, mercy, compassion would environ all men, that fetters would fall, both the desire and power to sin would be destroyed, and Zion, the joy of the whole earth, would be established on an everlasting foundation. Every Christian can say in a degree what Jesus said: "And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me." Every individual consciousness, uplifted, does uplift all to a degree, for we are "all members of one body."

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