Article October 10, 1936 Issue

You will make a more worth-while world because, in...

Extracts from Baccalaureate Address by George Channing, Christian Science Committee on Publication for Northern California, to the Graduating Class of Clovis Union High School,—Clovis, California, June 7, 1936

You will make a more worth-while world because, in your hearts, you love God more—love the things that are upright and love them unselfishly, with a love that is vigorous, and selfless enough to make you aware of desiring and striving for all that is right, aware of being at one with the author and creator of right. You will build a better world by seeing a better world. The blindness of those who, through varying degrees of selfishness, have seen only confusion and oncoming disaster will be replaced by ever widening vision of order and harmony.

What is spiritual sense? What are spiritual qualities? How do you know them? Spiritual discernment—how is it utilized? You will know a spiritual quality because it is wholly good.

When your honesty ceases to be a matter of choice; when you are honest because you cannot help being so; when you are honest without regard for the world's knowledge of it, and even when the world believes the contrary of you; when you are honest because you can be and do no otherwise, you are getting a glimpse of spiritual being. You ask no questions about it. The thought of reward never occurs to you. You are what you are by the facts of the case. Then you are unmoved by the storms and stresses which men ordinarily fear. For you know that it is "your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." And as it is with honesty, so with your love, your sincerity, your activity.

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