Editorial November 9, 1929 Issue

"From the least of them"

Violet Ker Seymer

Many individuals seem inclined to belittle themselves. They do not expect to achieve anything good, and perhaps but little good has been expected of them. One child in a family, for instance, may be regarded by its parents as something of a burden owing to the child's delicate health, weak intellect, or displeasing character. In due course this child may grow up feeling itself useless and unwanted, and upon its heart may fall a sense of loneliness and oppression.

Christian Science teaches such a one how to overcome his "inferiority complex," and to prove that the one Mind and its intelligence is just as available to him as to anyone, just as present for him to reflect and to utilize. Truth is the "Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world."

Such a one, turning to Christian Science for victory over the limitations with which mortal belief has so far seemed to brand him, learns that he can take his place in the world alongside of his fellows and glorify God, the creator of all, for the promisr stands, "They shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them." In order to know himself aright one must first learn to know God aright. He must train himself to put God, the perfect creator of perfect man, first and last in all his thoughts and desires. He must make an end of personal comparisons, negative thinking about himself or others, and must refuse to entertain mortal beliefs of envy, resentment, discouragement, idle speculation, or morbid introspection. Since the belief of limited ability rests in some degree upon every mortal, one can escape these limitations only by obeying the two complementary admonitions of the Master, "Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven," and, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." Disability is removed only as the belief in a material origin is exchanged for the understanding of man as spiritual, perfect, and immortal, heir to the boundless capacities of his creator.

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