Article April 19, 1947 Issue

"There is but one side to good"

WILLIS R. SMITH

It is commonly said that there are two sides to every question. and that it is necessary to consider both before we can arrive at a just decision. Every human being normally desires to throw his weight on the good or right side and to reject the evil or false. The poet expresses this human need for choice between the good and the evil side in the following lines, which appear in the Christian Science Hymnal (No. 258):

Oft to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with falsehood.
For the good or evil side.
A great cause, God's new Messiah,
Shows to each the bloom or blight,
So can choice be made by all men
Twixt the darkness and the light.

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