Editorial August 3, 1940 Issue

The Key of Life

Evelyn F. Heywood

The Founder of Christianity left humanity in no doubt that selfishness would not survive. "He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it," he told his disciples. These were words spoken at the period of his greatest triumph among the people, when even the Pharisees were bitterly acknowledging that the world had gone after him. Yet already he was planning to make the supreme sacrifice, by laying down a human sense of life. He had sought consistently to show the people where life is to be found, in the expression of health and sinlessness. of abundance and peace; to make them realize that it was because of evil and fearful thinking they were imprisoned within the walls of material sense, darkened by selfishness and cruelty, tortured by disease, hedged about by danger.

"Every condition implied by the great Master, every promise fulfilled, was loving and spiritual urging a state of consciousness that leaves the minor tones of so-called material life and abides in Christlikeness," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 9 of her Message to The Mother Church for 1902.

A deeply respected schoolmaster of an ancient and famous English school, in a farewell letter to a pupil, spoke with confidence of the influence for good which the young man would be able to exercise, concluding with these words: "always provided you are thinking most of what you can do for others' sake and not of what you can do for your own sake. That is the real key of life."

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