Article October 2, 1943 Issue

Progress

JOHN L. MOTHERSHEAD

Increased clarity of spiritual vision brings progress. Progress is not so much a matter of how much we do or are humanly, but it is a question of how well we do it and how clear our thought is about our real self.

Mortals are constantly deluded into thinking that progress means more of something material—a greater circle of friends, larger businesses, bigger houses or automobiles or bank accounts. Progress may be said to be a clearer understanding of man, not activity in a greater field of human learning. One thing really known is much more powerful than the partial knowledge of many things. One deed perfectly done is better than many deeds done in a mediocre fashion.

For centuries, in certain parts of the world, there have been families which have worked all their lives, one generation after another, at a certain business or craft. They have led happy, contented, wholesome lives, absorbed in showing forth an ever more perfect expression of that one type of work. Here progress, even in the material world, is seen to be a greater beauty of form and workmanship, a more skillful handling of materials rather than increased production; while those, of a different habit of life and thought, in what is called the modern world, are tempted to have another idea of progress, and to look for it in larger areas and ever-increasing numbers.

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