Editorial August 19, 1950 Issue

MEEKNESS AND PEACE

Helen Wood Bauman

The thirty-seventh Psalm has comforted many who have watched the apparent success of evildoers, for there they have found encouragement to trust God and commit their ways to Him. "Rest in the Lord," we read (verse 7), "and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way." And one of the Master's Beatitudes echoes the eleventh verse of this Psalm, "The meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace."

Christian Science brings fresh meaning to meekness, for it inspires patience and long-suffering based upon the understanding that nothing is real but God and His perfect creation. It reveals man as not sinful and mortal, but sinless and immortal; as the spiritual expression of God, who is Spirit. Furthermore, it exposes the false, suppositional nature of the material senses, which perceive man as a physical personality, self-deceived, lured by evil, and often overwhelmed by inundant mental forces he little understands.

Meekness increases in one who learns through Science that wrongdoing is a mesmeric state of mortal mind, which must come to an end because it is without deific support. Such meekness inherits reality, the new earth which John envisioned through spiritual sense. Through meekness one is able to touch the divine energies that mark the presence of Spirit's idea and to rest serene in a higher sense of being than the physical senses can know. The truly meek accommodate themselves to every circumstance and maintain the mildness and gentleness of that thought which embodies true power. They are not provoked either to resentment or to dismay when confronted by error's boasted superiority, but are enriched by a deeper demonstration of such God-derived qualities as love, justice, and mercy.

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