Article November 14, 1925 Issue

Watch

VIOLET A. STILL

Throughout the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's writings we are perpetually enjoined to watch. Sometimes those who have had the privilege of demonstrating much of the happiness and harmony which are the birthright of man may be lulled by the enjoyment of these very privileges into carelessness, forgetting the warning in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 564), "The serpent is perpetually close upon the heel of harmony." We cannot afford in the present state of the world's progress to forget this for a single day; for it is in unguarded moments that erroneous suggestions creep into our thought.

These suggestions vary with every circumstance and with every individual; and to turn them out whenever they appear is work for which we must always hold ourselves in readiness. If we can indeed realize the unlimited power of good and the powerlessness of evil, if we can really feel assured of the truth of the apostle's saying that it is God which worketh in us "both to will and to do of his good pleasure," then we can invariably prove the nothingness of the apparently self-assertive error of evil suggestion, under whatever guise it may appear.

In our gratitude for and rejoicing in the good which Christian Science has brought into our lives, we should never give up our constant work of watchfulness, for our progress depends upon our faithfulness; and upon our progress in the demonstration of Christian Science depends our usefulness to mankind. The whole world, whether it knows it or not, must rely upon the unfoldment of Truth, as revealed through Christian Science, in order to be rescued from the nightmares which mortal belief in evil has claimed to bring upon it. Every one of us has his individual responsibility for the welfare and harmony of the whole; and this work must be done by refusing to entertain any suggestion of the power of evil, and by gaining an ever increasing understanding of the allness and oneness of God, good.

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