Editorial January 14, 1928 Issue

The Removal of Stumblingblocks

Ella W. Hoag

At a cursory glance one might be tempted to say that there is a vast amount of stumbling going on in the world. This, no doubt, results from various causes. In the first place, there seem to be a large number of things to stumble over, and there is no doubt but that men in their blindness fail to recognize these obstacles and, metaphorically speaking, many a "stubbed toe" results! Indeed, even more serious disasters frequently result from contact with these deterrents to progress.

The Bible has much to say of stumblingblocks, and it repeatedly counsels great care in the avoidance and the removal of them. In writing to the Romans, Paul said, "Let us not therefore judge one another any more : but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way."

While the alert Christian Scientist endeavors always to be awake to the presence of stumblingblocks in his own pathway, so that he may avoid them, he may not be always so quick to think of the desirability of removing those with which he comes in contact, that the pathway of others may be free from them. He is also often asleep to the human tendency of placing stumblingblocks where others may fall over them.

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