Editorial May 25, 1946 Issue

The Simplicity of True Worship

Paul Stark Seeley

"Felicity ," it has been said, "comes of simplicity." This observer's conclusion might have been based on the fact stated by another: "The greatest truths are the simplest." Truth is the home of simplicity. When we find Truth, complexity flees and simplicity is found.

As one ponders the simplicity of the Founder of Christianity, considers the Master's interests and teachings, one finds there nothing to support the view that pure religion can be linked to desire for personal power, pomp, pageantry, and ritual. Born in a manger, reared in a simple home, he taught the greatest truths by the roadside, in a fishing boat, on the hills of Palestine, and by the shores of the Sea of Galilee.

"In this simplicity," says Mary Baker Eddy, "and with such fidelity, we see Jesus ministering to the spiritual needs of all who placed themselves under his care, always leading them into the divine order, under the sway of his own perfect understanding" (Retrospection and Introspection, p. 91); and in the same paragraph she says, "When he was with them, a fishing-boat became a sanctuary, and the solitude was peopled with holy messages from the All-Father." What simplicity!

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