Editorial February 21, 1931 Issue

Trust

Violet Ker Seymer

Trust in a power for good is indispensable to humanity. If the evidence of the material senses represented the boundary of thought, aim, and accomplishment, mankind would be deprived of moral and spiritual sense, for materiality cognized neither.

How do we account for deeds of heroism, righteous battles selfessly fought and won, high ideals upheld, fear and sin conquered. Unquestionably, the best in human experience points to the reward of trust in some unseen and often unanalyzed power for good. Trust in God is as a torchlight in human thought, leading it on and out of the darkness of material sense.

Intellect and pride are apt to ridicule trust in anything which cannot be materially seen and humanly accounted for; and such scorn, or distrust, may even be considered by some a mark of intelligence and discrimination. Professed unbelievers would have us think that religiously minded individuals are groping for a nonexistent Deity. But it is the materialist, not the idealist, whose vision is holden, and who is as yet unaware of the manifold tokens of the presence and power of the Supreme Being, God.

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