Editorial May 4, 1940 Issue

"The impulse of Soul"

Evelyn F. Heywood

In repudiation of the admission that men are aroused to action merely by motives of self-interest, Mary Baker Eddy has written on page 308 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," "Something higher, nobler, more imperative impels the impulse of Soul."

Human impulse, imprudent, often selfish in its motives and impetuous in its course of action—how quickly after its first youthful sallies attended by discomfiture or disillusionment, will it be set aside for staider methods! But the impulse of Soul knows no such chill inhibitions. Inspired of Love, guided by wisdom, it makes no mistakes, suffers no defeat. Let men here and now replace their insecure or lost impulses with the impulse of Soul! Possessed of eternal spontaneity, of undaunted zeal, they will find it forever unfolding in beauty and power. They will come to liken it to the water of which Jesus spoke to the woman of Samaria, assuring her that, whosoever should drink of it, it should "be in him a well of water springing up into eternal life."

Nothing less than "the impulse of Soul," one with infinity, guided by intelligence, sustained by law, can give to men faith and understanding springing up eternally in inspiration and joy. Thus divinely impelled, the spontaneity of action will be theirs, in moments of great responsibility as in the severest testings of their lives. They will prove that no weight of vital decisions, no sudden crisis, no blow encountered, whether deliberate or indiscriminate, can even momentarily rob them of their supreme confidence in the presence and power of Love on their behalf, or cripple the infinite range of their thought.

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