Editorial March 7, 1953 Issue

HUMILITY

Robert Ellis Key

Thomas Carlyle once wrote to a friend, "It is long years since I first saw the meaning of humility, and it came on me like water on one dying of thirst, and I felt it, and still feel it, to be the beginning of moral life."

True humility is spiritual. It signifies a subjection of self which is demanded by a knowledge of the omnipotence of God. Those who recognize the power of God naturally feel humble before this power. Humility compels us to recognize our personal inability and turns us absolutely to the infinite ability of Spirit.

The greatest men and women of history have been those of humble mind. Christ Jesus, impelled by spiritual humility, said (John 5:30), "I can of mine own self do nothing," and (verse 17), "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." The Master recognized all spiritual ability to be the result of the ability reflected from his Father, God. The impersonal sense of ability made it impossible for him to be overcome by the personal sense of life and death. He lived in Spirit as the reflection of Mind. He acted as one wholly dependent on Mind, and turned to his Father for guidance and direction with an absolute conviction of Mind's ability to supply the need. In his exercise of spiritual intelligence he healed the sick. In his understanding of God's spiritual affluence he fed the multitude. Through his recognition of the supremacy of spiritual law he walked on the water and calmed the storm on the lake.

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