Article November 21, 1931 Issue

The Victory

GEORGE J. SCHANTZ

On page 568 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says: "For victory over a single sin, we give thanks and magnify the Lord of Hosts. What shall we say of the mighty conquest over all sin?" And again, on page 254 of the same volume she says, "God requires perfection, but not until the battle between Spirit and flesh is fought and the victory won." We learn in Christian Science that in the realm of divine Mind error has no semblance of existence, and that its only apparent existence is in the belief which so-called mortal mind entertains about it. Where, then, does the conquest take place to which our beloved Leader refers, and what are we to do about it?

Divine Mind is perfect, and in reality there has never been a battle nor a conquest between Mind and error, because Mind's allness and error's consequent nothingness render such impossible and unthinkable. There could be no strife between all-power and no power. Mind, God, is thus eternally triumphant!

Notwithstanding these unalterable facts, human experience seems to be besieged with error in endless variety, and it is with these seeming conditions or beliefs that we have to deal scientifically. It is over them that the Christian Scientist is learning to exercise his God-given right of dominion. As Christian Scientists we know that the manifestations of inharmony are but dream shadows; yet they challenge the alert thinker to combat them; and as they are met and destroyed by right thinking, victory is achieved. Through the study of Christian Science our understanding becomes sensitive to good, which enables us to exercise true selective thinking; and by means of this spiritual right thinking we are able to shut out the chaos of the carnal mind. Then we have achieved a measure of victory, because we have realized to some extent the truth of Mrs. Eddy's words on page 306 of Science and Health, "Undisturbed amid the jarring testimony of the material sense, Science, still enthroned, is unfolding to mortals the immutable, harmonious, divine Principle,—is unfolding Life and the universe, ever present and eternal."

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