Editorial October 14, 1944 Issue

"Wash thine heart"

Paul Stark Seeley

"Wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved," said the prophet Jeremiah.

The most deceitful phase of evil is the belief it instills in mortals that there is pleasure in indulging certain phases of it—for instance, sensuality and the appetite for drugs, liquor, and tobacco. Most of mankind desires freedom from the pains of material life. Not many are eager to give up its seductive pleasures, more damaging than many pains. It is largely the belief of pleasure in mindless, material sensation that holds mortals in the thralldom of the material mind, to their ultimate destruction.

The unreasoning moth yields to the attraction of the destructive flame, and perishes for doing so. So mortals are drawn by the allurements of evil which pillory them, only the more easily to afflict and destroy them. Evil's momentary satisfactions but imprison in matter's limitations.

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