Article December 26, 1953 Issue

"THE WORLD HAS NEED OF YOU"

[Of Special Interest to Young People]

ELIZABETH SCHWARTZ

Humanly speaking, teen-agers stand at the threshold of adulthood. When they enter the adult world, what equipment will they take with them for their lifework?

In her book "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy says (p. 110), "Beloved children, the world has need of you,—and more as children than as men and women: it needs your innocence, unselfishness, faithful affection, uncontaminated lives."

Here is a straightforward statement as to the contribution young people can make. Not sophistication, but Godlike qualities of innocence, unselfishness, love, and purity are the world's needs. All the qualities of God are man's to express by reflection, for man is God's image. It would be impossible to name a single good and needful quality that could not be found in man's God-given heritage of spiritual blessings. "Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine," Jesus lovingly pointed out in the parable of the prodigal son as recorded in the Gospel of Luke (15:31). God has endowed man with infinite resources.

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