Editorial February 19, 1910 Issue

"SEEK YE FIRST."

Archibald McLellan

One of the necessary conditions for the success of a Christian Science church is harmony, and in order to bring about this condition or to maintain it, it is important to know what constitutes true harmony. The oft-quoted saying that in harmony is strength, inculcates a precept which is generally admitted to be true; yet few seem to understand that harmony in and of itself is not a power, but is rather a condition which expresses power or makes power operative in human affairs; in other words, they fail to see that there can be no real harmony with or between erroneous beliefs, or that there can be no harmonious action if the action taken or to be taken is not a right one.

Strength of numbers is not always an expression of harmony, nor is lack of numbers always an expression of inharmony or an evidence of wrong action. The one point to be kept in view is that the only real harmony there is or can be rests in association with good, and that in this sense and in this sense alone can there be strength in harmony.

For a Christian Science church to be truly harmonious, there must be a condition of union or at-one-ment with divine Principle, and the strongest proof that this oneness, this union with divine Principle, exists, is manifested through those qualities which Mrs. Eddy, on page 465 of Science and Health, denominates "the attributes of God," namely, "justice, mercy, wisdom, goodness, and so on."

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