Article January 7, 1928 Issue

Progress

JESSIE G. CALDWELL

Men readily admit that God is the creator of the universe, but they often fail to consider that with the creation is also the law to uphold and govern it. This law is the essence of purity, even as God's creation has not an element of evil in it. And the law enforced is equal to the elimination of every apparent discord. It would cease to be a law if it were not as fixed and invariable and powerful as God. God's will is law; therefore the perfect application of it is the rule whereby all evil is to be overcome.

In one's striving to overcome any phase of materiality, whether it be a sense of physical discord, inharmonious business conditions, or any error which seems to oppose Truth, the complete application must precede the manifestation that results from obedience to divine law. In the sacred, consecrated work of carrying on Christian Science church activities the same rule applies. Obedience to rules and by-laws and undeviating use of and prayerful adherence to the Manual of The Mother Church are necessary if true progress is to result. The unselfish and impersonal efforts of the membership will thereby reap the reward of spiritual growth, and find their church blessing the community.

The innermost thoughts of the individual must be searched and all unlikeness to God dispelled. Truth must be approached reverently and meekly, but none the less positively, in order to maintain the position of right thinking and, consequently, of right living. The toleration of work poorly done is mesmerism, which leads into stagnation and darkness, and must be exposed and destroyed, that man may be revealed in the perfection of divine light.

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