Article June 19, 1943 Issue

Democratic Youth Today

[Of Special Interest to Youth]

GERTRUDE GARBUTT THYNG

In this time of world crisis, youth is being carried forward into a much larger sphere than it formerly knew. Instead of feeling that their life purposes have been sadly interfered with, many young people recognize that these purposes were much too narrow for the bigger world into which they are moving. They would not go back into the limited way in which they were thinking. Their interests now are bound up with those of millions of others in a great effort toward world betterment.

Not only geographically are they conscious of a larger world, but spiritually they have touched something bigger than this planet, higher than the stratosphere, longer than the span of earthly years, more satisfying even than human companionship—they have touched the illimitable, the eternal, and would not turn back. They have begun to understand the words of Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 258), "God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis."

As these bigger issues are recognized, youth is becoming more reverent, more tender, more appreciative, and more responsive to good. In a word, it is maturing and has begun to think things through. Democracy, freedom, justice may once have been vague, taken-for-granted words; now they mean so much to most young people that they motivate their lives.

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