Article August 23, 1913 Issue

In your delightful editorial of a few days ago on "Singing...

Ora S. Drewry

Cincinnati (Ohio) Post

In your delightful editorial of a few days ago on "Singing at Your Work," the kindly reference to Christian Scientists is to be commended and appreciated. You say that as a group they seem more patient, tranquil, and eventempered than an equal number of other folk selected at random. These virtues you attribute to the force of willpower. Please permit a brief correction of this misapprehension. Christian Scientists eschew the use of human will-power. They know God as the source, the origin, the substance of all that really is or can be. As the sun is the central source of all the light and heat of which we have practical experience, so God, as the Scriptures declare, giveth life and breath and all things to man. By virtue of this real sonship as the image and likeness of God, man expresses or reflects the attributes of God, just as the ray of light coming out from the sun has nothing within itself, but expresses or reflects the light and heat of the sun. The Master, the great Exemplar of all Christianity, said, "I can mine own self do nothing." In other words, It is the Father that worketh through me.

Though all the world were flooded with the glorious light of the sun, we would sit in darkened chambers unless we were to let the sunlight in. Understanding, or knowing the truth about God, as the Master put it, is the open door through which the divine attributes, the patience, the tranquillity, the even temper of which you speak, flow into the hearts of men and radiate from their lives.

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