Editorial March 7, 1936 Issue

A Better Way

George Shaw Cook

AN encouraging sign of the times is found in a recent announcement made by the heads of some of the automobile manufacturing concerns in the United States. They declare it as their intention to abandon the so-called "horror campaign," adopted for the purpose of promoting safety in driving motor vehicles. The reason given for abandoning this campaign, which has admittedly failed, is that is has been found better to educate drivers than to terrify them.

This announcement will be welcomed by many thoughtful persons, and by none more than by students of Christian Science, who have long since discovered the futility of trying to frighten people into being good. Mary Baker Eddy, on page 327 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," says, "Fear of punishment never made man truly honest." And it may be said that fear never makes one truly obedient to law or truly considerate of the rights of others. Only love of good and the unselfish desire to do the will of God, good, will make one so.

Fear of future punishment has not been found adequate to turn erring mortals toward the open gates of heaven. But love of righteousness, accompanied by an intelligent realization of the ever-presence of divine Love, and by an honest effort to be governed by divine Principle, has, through Christian Science, brought heaven, harmony, into the conscious experience of many erstwhile misguided and mistaken ones, here and now.

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