Editorial April 10, 1943 Issue

Construction

Evelyn F. Heywood

The thoughts of earnest men everywhere are turning towards the magnitude and the significance of the tasks that lie ahead in rebuilding a stricken world. Construction, rather than reconstruction, is what will be demanded of us; not replacing, remodeling, reconditioning the old, but the building of a new world, with materials not worn and faded with memories of the past, but fresh and bright, chosen by those whose love and confidence are great.

The construction that is to take place will demand of us a newness of spirit which is not easily daunted; it will call for service which does not quickly tire. Uncovered, discredited, discarded forever should be the methods, policies, the intentions and ambitions, which through every form of inhumanity have brought misery and disintegration in their wake. Those who have learned anything from the present are aware that unless that which we construct means the guaranteeing of the rights of the individual to live equably in a free world, the foundation on which we build will not endure. Human justice, human freedom, human kindness, must be safeguarded if the warfare is to have proved worthwhile. And how is this to be done?

On page 11 of "The People's Idea of God" Mary Baker Eddy writes, "Above the platform of human rights let us build another staging for diviner claims,—even the supremacy of Soul over sense, wherein man cooperates with and is made subject to his Maker."

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