Editorial October 7, 1944 Issue

"I will be with thy mouth"

John Randall Dunn

"If people would confine their talk to subjects that are profitable," avers our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in her "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 339), "that which St. John informs us took place once in heaven, would happen very frequently on earth,— silence for the space of half an hour." Many, without doubt, will recall the pithy rejoinder of someone who complained about the incessant chatter of an acquaintance. "What does she talk about?" asked a sympathetic friend. "Why," replied the other, "she has never said yet!" In these troubled days and nights, when the atmosphere of mortal thought seems charged with the babel of raucous and unpalatable error, how welcome is the voice of one who lives, radiates, and speaks the truth!

It is not enough that one should strive to be an optimist, voicing hope and cheer. To spread abroad the true optimism, the consciousness of good, which uplifts and heals, one needs to grasp in some measure the basic truth of being, namely, the goodness of God and the harmony of His universe. Of that great scientific optimist,

Christ Jesus, one of our lovely hymns speaks:

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