Article May 7, 1910 Issue

PERFECT ACTION

FLORENCE E. B. DONALDSON.

In I Samuel we read: "The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed." This verse, taken from Hannah's prayer of thanksgiving, on the occasion when she fulfilled the promise she had made and formally dedicated her first-born son, Samuel, to the service of the Lord, shows how clearly she realized that there is no true action except that which conforms to the standard of God, good. St. Paul went farther, in declaring that in God "we live, and move, and have our being;" and now Christian Science reveals to us that there is no other real action but the action of good, the perfect action of Principle, and that this alone should be reflected and expressed by all. We read in our text-book (p. 187) that "the divine Mind includes all action and volition, and man in Science is governed by this Mind."

Through spiritual sense alone can we understand the all-harmonious action of divine Principle, Love. We must turn from the evidence of the material senses and seek to learn the eternal truths of spiritual law. With the veil of the temple rent in twain by the triumph of Love over hate, we can penetrate beyond, and know something of the perfect work of all-creative Mind. It is thus we begin to see clearly that the belief in the action of evil, as well as in that of good, obtaining in human consciousness, is a false concept, a war of opposites, a logical impossibility. "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."

In the first chapter of Genesis we have a wonderful picture of the sublime and harmonious action of Principle, for in this brief but comprehensive account of spiritual creation we find no element of destruction, no death-dealing force of storm or tempest, no violence of upheaval or catastrophe, no warfare between God's ideas, no discord nor antagonism. It portrays, on the contrary, a scene of grand, harmonious action, resulting from the revealed fact that "the Spirit of God moved." Creation is therefore not only spiritual but good. Nothing, perhaps, is brought out more clearly in this unique chapter of Scriptural history than the permanence, the continuity, the progressiveness, the perfect harmony of Mind-action, and as we strive more earnestly to walk in the light of divine Truth, we begin to apprehend the demands of absolute Science on this point. We must strenuously cast out of consciousness the false claims of material sense to make us channels for inharmonious action of any kind, whether mental, moral, or physical.

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