Editorial April 17, 1920 Issue

On Guard

Gustavus S. Paine

Christian Science heals. True healing is, of course, the replacing of any seemingly wrong conditions with right activity. This replacement is by no means limited to what is called physical disease. Every discord, whether of business, of the household, or of the community, as well as any sickness or sin, has to give way sooner or later before the harmony of the divine Mind. Because real Life with its whole manifestation is indestructible, every supposed phase of destruction has to subside into its native nothingness. In fact, the ever presence of Life keeps any supposition of an opposite null and void. This is the unerring watchfulness of the divine Mind. Not for an instant could divine intelligence and its manifestation be touched by any belief in non-intelligence. Thus infinite consciousness forever knows the eternality of its idea.

As Mrs. Eddy tells us on pages 150 and 151 of "Miscellaneous Writings," "God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect. Not more to one than to all, is God demonstrable as divine Life, Truth, and Love; and His people are they that reflect Him—that reflect Love. Again, this infinite Principle, with its universal manifestation, is all that really is or can be; hence God is our Shepherd. He guards, guides, feeds, and folds the sheep of His pasture; and their ears are attuned to His call." The one infinite cause perfectly sustains its effect; and the genuine effect is influenced only by the demonstrably true cause. In this way Principle keeps ward over its alert idea. By giving expression only to the divine Mind, idea is ever successful and satisfactory.

One turning to Christian Science for healing of any sort is satisfied, therefore, just in proportion as he comprehends Principle and its idea in place of any seeming opposite. For such a one, daily alertness must consist in the knowing that, no matter what may seem to arise, spiritual intelligence is manifesting itself in spiritual action. This spiritual action is the genuine idea, here and now altogether apart from any belief in matter. The illusion of mortality, with all its limitations, vanishes in the presence of the immortal idea. To be on guard, then, is to understand that the divine Mind does govern the true man, in spite of any supposition to the contrary. It is wholly the process of Mind, not any material sense of things. It is the awake realization of Truth, to which every one must turn. It is living and doing, which must be entirely in accord with Principle. Certainly this is a high ideal for endeavor; but through the earnest study and application of Christian Science it is actually attainable. With simple sincerity, each one has but to practice what he learns.

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