Editorial January 2, 1937 Issue

Daily Demonstration

Violet Ker Seymer

On page 283 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes, "We must receive the divine Principle in the understanding, and live it in daily life." Could there be a more fruitful incentive and interest than this receiving and living? In essence, one's "daily life" is mental, for Life is Mind, and true living expresses true knowing. The holy purpose of one's daily life has to be kept constantly in thought. Its highest ideal should be cherished and developed while the outward occupations are being carried on conscientiously and happily.

The children of Israel were told to gather manna daily for the day's supply. The Christian Scientist has to develop his spirituality by daily study and demonstration of the fresh truths he is constantly perceiving. Even as a besieged city defends the roads through which supplies and reinforcements reach it, so must the Christian Scientist watch that nothing obstruct his spiritual receptivity, for it is only through spiritual sense that he is replenished with strength and inspiration. Human consciousness seems besieged with temptations. Absorption in temporal interests, fear, and selfishness would attempt to divert the Christian Scientist's attention from his spiritual supply and so deprive him of the inspiration which is indispensable in daily life.

The taunts of materialism may tempt some to echo the Psalmist's despairing cry, "As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?" Mortal mind ignorantly suggests that certain conditions of sin or disease are incurable, and that God is either absent or impotent. Material sense insists that whereas Spirit is far off, material help is at hand and one should leave the transcendental for the material. "Where is thy God?" it asks. Every day the Christian Scientist is empowered to prove to himself and to the world that God is here, spiritual understanding and integrity are here, courage and fidelity are here, health and joy are here; the power of demonstration is here.

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