Editorial March 4, 1944 Issue

Vanquishing a Corroding Vice

Paul Stark Seeley

William Shenstone exposed a base quality of human thinking when he wrote, "There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is, that people can commend it without envy." In an address at Edinburgh University, Barrie defined envy as "the most corroding of the vices," and Fielding thus pictures it: "Some folks rail against other folks because other folks have what some folks would be glad of."

This vicious vice of envy runs from the light of day. It hides in hidden haunts in the inner hearts of men, often covered with a smirky smile, while tincturing thought with its polluting poison. None who shelter it enjoy it; yet, lacking excuse, it clings leech-like, a mental termite undermining the foundations of friendship and the home of brotherhood. Too few are willing to admit its presence or to seek the antidote that can neutralize its sway.

The Science of Christianity, the Christ Science, brings the one permanent cure for envy and its next of kin, jealousy and covetousness. This remedy is the true idea of God and man. This true idea exposes these destructive thought qualities as never related to, nor having any place in, the consciousness of the man of God's making —the true consciousness and being of you and me. They exist only in the godless, negative, material mind, and in that counterfeit sense of thought and consciousness which expresses it.

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