Editorial December 18, 1954 Issue

"LIVE AND LET LIVE"

Harold Molter

In human experience people differ in education, points of view, and accomplishments. This calls for the exercise of the highest degree of understanding, good will, and forbearance among men. Mary Baker Eddy writes (Message to The Mother Church for 1902, p. 2), "To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine Love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart,—this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal."

In this statement our Leader has pointed out the Christianly scientific basis for the establishment of right, harmonious relationships between men and nations. In all our daily activities our object should include identification of thought with the truth of being; the practice of unselfishness; and a willingness to await quietly and expectantly the outcome of events.

When one is tempted to rebuke or speak in criticism of an individual, a group, or a nation, it is always helpful to pause and seek the guidance of divine Mind, and obey the injunction of the Master (John 7:24), "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

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