Article April 15, 1939 Issue

"The speed, beauty, and achievements of goodness"

ELOISE L. PATTILLO

Partly because of modern traffic, the word "speed" sometimes has an undesirable connotation of headstrong recklessness. However, dictionary definitions of this word include "prosperity," and the Anglo-Saxon root, "sped," means "success," as well as "swiftness." Thus, in its affirmative sense, speed leads to accomplishment, hastened by elimination of the nonessential.

Mary Baker Eddy, in her message on the occasion of the dedication of the Extension of The Mother Church, refers to "the beginning of this edifice," and says (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 6), "Its crowning ultimate rises to a mental monument, a superstructure high above the work of men's hands, even the outcome of their hearts, giving to the material a spiritual significance—the speed, beauty, and achievements of goodness."

Should it not be the endeavor of individual members of The Mother Church throughout the world so to live that this ideal of orderly, harmonious unfoldment, unfettered by mortal arguments that would delay and obstruct, may characterize their various undertakings? Indeed, it is to the glory of God, and as a proof of the naturalness of good, that "the speed, beauty, and achievements of goodness" should be reflected in the working out of human problems without a prolonged temporizing with error.

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