Article December 9, 1944 Issue

A well-known economic expert...

John M. Dean

John M. Dean, Committee on Publication for Tennessee Commercial Appeal, Memphis

A well-known economic expert writing in your columns recently makes some interesting observations, with some of which all of us can, no doubt, agree. However, and with all due respect to the writer's lofty motives and fine ability, he seems to contradict an essential part of his own argument. While admitting the importance of "spiritual power" in settling pressing present-day problems, he names Christian Science in connection with some other systems utterly unrelated thereto, and concludes that they "are all talking about spiritual power, and what it can do," adding the following criticism: "The great need, however, is for carefully planned and executed laboratory data which will command greater respect than mere words."

There can be no dissent from our friend's evaluation of theories which stop with mere words, but it is well to emphasize a fact too often overlooked, namely, that every good thing that has ever occurred in the history of mankind was thought before it was acted. Even though we appear to live in a material environment of our own making, we have not entirely shut ourselves off from God and His creation.

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