Editorial March 27, 1920 Issue

Simple Living

Gustavus S. Paine

Christian Science is simple. Any one who turns to it for healing must start with the simple fact that God governs man. Just to know this is good in itself. God is the divine Mind which is the cause for all true living. Without this divine Mind, there could be nothing. So when one is simply glad to be alive, no matter what may have seemed to be, he is at the starting point in his knowing and proving that the divine Mind alone must govern his whole true doing. Certainly this basis of Christian Science is so simple that any one who has never thought about it in the least can readily understand it. And the very reasoning that the divine Mind and what it knows is all there is to Life expressed is truly good experience in the present.

Through the war the soldiers had to get down to one kind of simple living. Many of the things that they, going into the army, had thought they needed for happiness had suddenly or soon to be replaced by different ways of doing. Yet, one and all, they found that it was the doing that counted, and not any human sense of things. Others who have set out to reach the North Pole or to fly across the Atlantic have had to prove the same truth, that alert doing is enough in all circumstances. Really, then, much as any one may look backward or forward to what are thought of as comforts, one always has to find present comfort in being glad for Life itself.

In the active days of settlement after the war, the same simplicity of joy is what carries one through. Those who have not known how boundless the living in the divine Mind really is can learn to-day, if they will. Both Capital and Labor must find their springtime and endless youth in the sheer rejoicing that the divine Mind alone can produce any real action. A treaty of peace can be consummated and kept only through delight in the knowing of what divine Principle requires. The wholeness of supply is proved flexible and sufficient for every need as it is seen to come from intelligence. The health of the nations is preserved when all are sure together that it springs from the one infinite Life. Patient happiness in the work for Truth means order in every detail of living.

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