Editorial January 12, 1946 Issue

"Do the work of an evangelist"

John Randall Dunn

How the light of courage and spiritual uplift can flood our thinking when hope—gentle, radiant hope—is bidden to enter our mental homes and throw open the shutters! This hope is never forlorn, for it is first of all Christian, and thus ever consonant with the expectation of good. Many pictures in magazines and newspapers these days portray the utter hopelessness and despair of war criminals and victims alike returning to devastated cities and facing the seemingly insuperable problem of rehabilitation.

Should not the Christian Scientist, who has proved at least in some measure that "earth has no sorrow that Love cannot cure" (Christian Science Hymnal, No. 40), yearn to bring to stricken humanity everywhere the hope, yes, the promise, of present-day deliverance from all inharmony? He should leave no stone unturned in his effort wisely to broadcast to receptive hearts the glad message of Immanuel, or God, good, with us. His is the privilege of letting his light so shine before men that hope will be restored to the hopeless, and beams of healing truth will find entrance into many fear-darkened hearts.

An old adage has it that it is always darkest just before the dawn; hence the present dark moment of world upheaval should portend the coming of a happier day for mankind. No one enjoys a topsy-turvy home during the season of spring house cleaning or redecorating; but feeling the whole-someness of the stir-up, one can patiently endure the present discomfort and hopefully await the improved sense of things which the commotion presages.

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