Editorial August 1, 1914 Issue

Giving up Ghosts

John B. Willis

A Great artist has counseled his pupils that mastery is to be achieved "only as one learns to let go of himself," and whatever he may have meant by this, his words, when interpreted in Christian Science, become the statement of a most significant truth. The average personal sense is made up of the temporal things it has, together with the temporal things it longs to have, and to these it clings with that fearsome insistence so well expressed by Thompson in his lines:—

For, though I knew His love who followed,
 Yet was I sore adread
 Lest, having Him, I must have naught beside.

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