Editorial October 25, 1947 Issue

AWAKE TO THE TRUTH OF BEING!

L. Ivimy Gwalter

The clarion call of Truth is one of action. In startling contrast to the torpor and stagnancy of mortal mind is Isaiah's rousing cry, "Awake, awake." Twice in the fifty-first chapter of Isaiah occurs this call, and the third and final time (Isa. 52:1) it rings: "Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city." And the prophet continues (Isa. 52:2,9), "Shake thyself from the dust;... loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. ... Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord hath comforted his people."

In what contrast is this vibrant call to be spiritually up and doing to the oft-accepted human attitude of waiting! Yet the words waking and waiting concur in their Anglo-Saxon derivation in including the thought of watching, a sense which is keenly alive, devoid of inaction, apathy, idleness, or procrastination.

Watching denotes spiritual activity, attention, vigilance, alertness. No wandering in the bypaths of material sense, no self-pity or grief, no mesmerism of discouragement, no futility of despair darkens the thought that is eagerly watching. Watching and loving go hand in hand.

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