Editorial April 30, 1927 Issue

Equality

Ella W. Hoag

There are perhaps few subjects of more importance to the salvation of mankind than equality; and a correct understanding of it is absolutely essential in order that men may win the blessings that accrue therefrom. While much is written and spoken concerning equality, it is generally presented from a more or less mistaken standpoint, for few if any mortals are really desiring or seeking it. For the most part, mankind is engaged in an effort to reach what it calls "the top," and those who talk most of equality are apt to be those who believe themselves farthest from the pinnacle of their desire. Under such circumstances to talk of this subject is selfishly to prate of something not understood.

So long as equal rights are considered from a material standpoint,—from the desire to possess material wealth, position, intellectuality,—equality will never be truly attained, since whatever is based in matter is without security or solidity, without stability or substance. Such desire is ever urging on to what it calls greater heights, only finally to crumble into the nothingness, the illusion, of its own false claims.

Now equality is really a divine concept, and only through spirituality can it be perceived and demonstrated. Because it implies perfection there seems little if any of it in evidence to the human sense of things. Instead, its opposites—superiority and inferiority—are continually calling out for attention and carrying in their wake all sorts of mistaken efforts and disappointing results, of cruel jealousies and their attendant discomforts. The fact is that no one can ever be truly satisfied until he awakes in God's likeness—until he finds that perfect state of being where all good is indeed free and equal. It is largely because of this that the inequalities of human experience already appear to the earnest thinker as wrong and the necessity of overcoming them as one of the world's greatest problems.

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