Editorial March 7, 1925 Issue

Faith and Purity

Albert F. Gilmore

IN a paragraph from Mrs. Eddy's pen, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 410), appears a sentence which carries the admonishment of divine Love in a manner both appealing and authoritative: "The more difficult seems the material condition to be overcome by Spirit, the stronger should be our faith and the purer our love." Here, obviously, our Leader has made faith and love the handmaids of Spirit, the mental attributes through which Spirit most successfully accomplishes its divine purpose in human experience, the manifestation of its own infinitude. What an incentive the faithful worker in Christian Science finds in these inspired words to attain purity of thought,—the mental state without which the light of spiritual Truth ceases to shine in human consciousness,—and to strengthen faith, faith which understands something of the ever-presence and all-power of the heavenly Father! These qualities, when present, are the open channels through which Love accomplishes its perfect work.

The Christian Scientist, faced with a seemingly difficult situation which Spirit is to heal, yearns for the ability to bring to bear more of the divine power, for a larger capacity to express the healing Truth. In answer to this prayer, our beloved Leader, fully comprehending the problems which Christian Scientists are called upon to meet, gave the perfect answer,—purify thought and strengthen faith. How important, then, that we should obey the directions our Leader has given for us; and also that we know precisely the process by which increased divine power is to be invoked!

How is love to be purified? By spiritualizing thought. As we turn from the constant contemplation of materiality to Spirit, God, we lessen our hold upon matter and become increasingly conscious of the spiritual facts of being. Thus thought is transformed, the human mind is renewed, and the universe of divine Love—in which enters no trace of materiality—becomes more real to us. No spiritual progress is ever made without just this cleansing process.

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