Editorial March 2, 1918 Issue

Slackness Analyzed

William D. McCrackan

God's children are minutemen, armed with righteous armor, using no excuses to disobey God. Each child of God may have different duties and different ways of following the voice within, but mental alertness, keenness of vision, clearness of hearing, are all there to respond to the call. There can be no inertia of thought for the one who is in tune with the voice of the high calling. Though the spiritual call comes from the mountain top it resounds through the valley, and those who are making the upward ascent catch the tone and carry it in their heart, singing of God's glory.

Mental slackness comes from disobedience to God. Strikes of the human will, without one iota of spiritual force, are the very essence of hate. There are many mental forms of slackness that stand ready to strike like so many sleeping serpents ready to coil and sting when stirred. Let there be a mental clean-up at this hour of the world's need for metaphysicians, so that the world may be saved from going down into the thralldom of greedy disaster. The power to save the world can only come from God, and man understanding this will be given the right ideas, the strength and endurance to carry on God's work. Wiping out mental slackness will destroy evil strikes and help man to obey God and enjoy the light of heaven.

When the tide reaches a stage of sluggishness between the ebb and flow, slack water is said to have set in. When a sailing vessel is slow in coming about into the wind, it is said to be slack in stays. When a human being lacks promptness in responding to the country's call, he is to-day called a slacker. The condition of mind which is slackness is limp and listless, it slows down when briskness is required, it shirks activity, it is negligent when care and promptness should be exercised, feeble when strength is essential. Slackness retards and is remiss. It makes for poor work and procrastination.

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