Editorial November 30, 1963 Issue

What the World Needs

Helen Wood Bauman

One thing the world needs in order to bring about the greatest good in the quickest time is to understand what is happening today. Threats of nuclear war, immorality, crime, alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and other evils appear to exist side by side with the purest motives that have ever animated individuals and society, If we are shocked by the depravity of mortals, we should remember also the dedicated efforts of many unselfed people to help the underprivileged, to achieve social justice, to provide equal opportunities for all, and to uphold such high standards of Christliness in themselves that they are able to heal the sick and sinful.

Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 83), "Science only can explain the incredible good and evil elements now coming to the surface." Later, on page 96 of this book, she says: "Mortal error will vanish in a moral chemicalization. This mental fermentation has begun, and will continue until all errors of belief yield to understanding."

To human thought, good and evil seem to dwell in the same person as well as in the same world. Christ Jesus taught this lesson in his parable of the tares and wheat. And his parable implies that the time will come when spiritual maturity will separate between evil and true identity and then destroy that evil so that only the good will remain. He showed the universality of the effect of the Christ, Truth, and the fermentation it would cause in the world. He said (Matt. 13:42), "There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

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