Editorial June 9, 1923 Issue

"Stationary power, stillness, and strength"

Duncan Sinclair

Mrs. Eddy in the chapter "Waymarks" in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 93), after pointing out that Jesus "went about" during his ministry and that the evangelists of his time did the same, and having contrasted their method with that of modern times, says, "The best spiritual type of Christly method for uplifting human thought and imparting divine Truth, is stationary power, stillness, and strength; and when this spiritual ideal is made our own, it becomes the model for human action." Every student of Christian Science knows how true her words are. Is it not the experience of every one who takes up the study of the Science of being that as he understands the truth, understands something of the nature of God and of His idea, man, he loses, in proportion to his understanding, the instability, the restlessness, the fretfulness, which he knows to be weakness, and gains the calm of "stationary power, stillness, and strength," which betokens the Mind of Christ?

God, divine Mind, is ever at rest. Consider what this means! God is infinite. God is ever present. Hence, all space is filled with the one spiritual presence, which is at rest. This does not signify that oblivion reigns. The entire reverse is true; for God is omniactive. Creation is sustained by God continually; and since creation is the infinite expression of the creator, God must be infinitely active. The great spiritual fact thus comes to light; namely, that God, the infinitely active Mind, is at rest. There is no friction in divine activity, because it is purely spiritual. There is no inharmony in Mind's perfectly ordered expression, because spiritual law governs it absolutely. "God rests in action," as Mrs. Eddy states on page 519 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

Now, as Christian Science reveals, man, who is God's creation, reflects God, reflects divine Mind, not only in one phase or several, but in the unlimited range of Mind's intelligence. The divine image, man, is perfectly harmonious, because the divine Principle of man's being is perfect. And so, man also rests. These truths are the fixed truths of absolute Science. They are subject to no so-called human law, to no human caprice, to no false belief of mortal mind. They are as immutable as they are real; as eternal as God Himself. As they dawn on human consciousness, what happens? A change begins to take place in the thought of the student. Sometimes the change is radical, even revolutionary, as material beliefs, which may offer a strenuous resistance to Truth at first, are given up. But as the change takes place, the individual begins to apprehend the meaning of the words of the twenty-third psalm, "He leadeth me beside the still waters." Fear and anxiety and worry are replaced by trust and confidence in God; and peace and harmony bring rest.

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