Editorial April 13, 1929 Issue

God's Thoughts to Usward

Violet Ker Seymer

Until Christian Science revealed to humanity the scientific, enlightened mode of thinking, true and false thoughts were accepted without much discrimination. Where there is hardly any intelligent analysis, or mental stock-taking, havoc is apt to reign, and this mental confusion inevitably expresses itself in the daily life of the individual.

Christian Science gives one the only real basis from which to gauge the value or the worthlessness of the thoughts he is entertaining. This basis is the unerring and eternal Mind named God, and it must have been discerned by the prophet who wrote, "I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." This beautiful statement serves to remind one that no thoughts of fear, sorrow, agitation, or sinful temptation have ever passed from God to His beloved image. His thoughts bring only radiant and immortal messages of spiritual being; and as these thoughts are entertained by the individual they necessarily annul the torments of false beliefs, for opposites cannot consort together.

Passing from the first stage of lack of discrimination between right and wrong thoughts, one may for a time go to the opposite extreme of fearing the so-called power of false belief. Therefore our Leader writes on page 252 of "Miscellaneous Writings": "Christian Science classifies thought thus: Right thoughts are reality and power; wrong thoughts are unreality and powerless, possessing the nature of dreams. Good thoughts are potent; evil thoughts are impotent, and they should appear thus." What encouragement is felt by the individual who learns, through Christian Science, that although he may have seemed to be sunk in the morass of sickness or sin, yet the Science of true thinking, in proportion as he acquires it, can lift him entirely out of his troubles, be these troubles moral, mental, or physical. As Christ, Truth, liberates his thinking from error, so his body is liberated from sickness or the effects of sinfulness. An invalid may have been told that his case is beyond the reach of medicine or surgery. Another may have been condemned as incurably sinful. In both these cases despair is instilled into the sufferer. Now is God, divine Mind, entertaining sick, sinful, or despairing thoughts about Himself or His own reflection? Assuredly not! Since, then, there is no discord in God, good, there is in truth no desperate condition about which to fret one's self. The antidote for all torment lies in reflecting God's "thoughts of peace, and not of evil." Holding to the comforting fact that God imparts only good thoughts, the Christian Scientist learns to analyze his thinking impersonally, scientifically; he learns promptly to reject such thoughts as do not bear the hall mark of divine Mind—such thoughts, in other words, as are not genuine.

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