Editorial June 14, 1913 Issue

OUR ADEQUATE SUPPORT

John B. Willis

Basic truths are always universal, they refuse to be compassed by the specific. They must have range, be behind everything, and many of us have either failed lamentably to see this, or else we have persistently forgotten it. We are greatly given to saying "Lo here!" or "Lo there!" limiting the truth to our human perspective, identifying right with persons or policies, especially with some class or party. We are for capital or for labor, for conservatism or for liberalism, for Smith or for Jones, instead of being for justice, for integrity, for fair dealing; in a word, for righteousness and truth, for the rule of the ideal on every plane and in every relation of life.

Inspiration and courage must be the fruitage of one's knowing that every right idea has very much more than men or movements to lean upon; that it is related to omnipotence, and has all the resources of the kingdom of heaven to support it. This is true of all right action. Said Jesus, "If God so clothe the grass of the field." He discerned, as he would have us discern, that rightly interpreted the sprouting of a seed is a world event. To him, there was no least thing unrelated to the largest; hence the sustaining significance to his thought and ministry of the wayside flower and the star-strewn sky. They brought him disclosures of Life and law.

Mrs. Eddy has said that we too "must act as possessing all power from Him in whom we have our being" (Science and Health, p. 264), and to do this it is imperative that we gain the realization that every least verity, every right idea we cherish, is directly related to God; that there is no isolated fact in His universe; that He is All-in-all. This realization dispels discouragement, ends the stress of anxiety over little things, the rule of the local. It enlarges one's horizon by continually lifting up his thought. He thus finds escape from weakening self-consciousness and gains that poise which attends a knowledge that in standing for demonstrable truth he is brought into immediate touch with and is supported by the infinite.

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