Editorial February 23, 1924 Issue

"No man can serve two masters"

Duncan Sinclair

In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus said: "No man can serve two masters. ... Ye cannot serve God and mammon." Memorable words; and especially so, to those instructed in divine Science. It is noteworthy that after uttering them the Master told his hearers of God's loving care for His creation, referring to the feeding of "the fowls of the air" and the growing of the "lilies of the field," and saying, "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."

No one can possibly know better than does the Christian Scientist how necessary it is to keep thought undivided concerning the eternal verities of Being. Indeed, the great value of Christian Science may be said to lie in the fact that it makes plain what these verities are, and how to be faithful to them: Christian Science lays great stress on the need of obedience to what one understands of Truth. Mrs. Eddy never said that the pathway of the Christian Scientist would be one strewn with roses; she agreed with Paul that the Christian life is a warfare, a battle with the seeming forces of evil, and that the fight must continue until spiritual consciousness is alone acknowledged to be real, to the entire discomfiture of false belief, erroneously termed consciousness.

Christian Science, then, makes its world-wide appeal to men on behalf of the truth concerning the living and true God. Oftentimes it seems to be making its appeal in vain. But this is certain: never in the whole history of mankind has there been such a genuine rallying to the standard of Truth which Christian Science sets up, as is being witnessed to-day. And it has to be remembered that that standard is absolute. What is it? The truth that God is infinite good, and that He exists without an opposite. It is around that standard that all the agencies of the Christian Science movement are united. No one can really be allied with the movement who has not accepted that truth, and who is not endeavoring to demonstrate it in his life in the overcoming of every form of evil belief. His allegiance to God must be undivided; Truth must be his only master; he must seek "the kingdom of God, and his righteousness" first, if he would have the reward of faithfulness as promised by Jesus.

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