Editorial September 14, 1929 Issue

"What manner of communications are these"

Violet Ker Seymer

On the road to Emmaus Jesus overtook two of his disciples and said to them, "What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?" Although he had specifically told them that he would rise the third day, Jesus found his disciples thinking in retrospect, not in joyous prospect, crediting the evidence of corporeal sense and discrediting the evidence of spiritual sense. So they allowed themselves to be saddened by the suggestions of loss and failure, though all the time Truth was, and is, triumphant, and Life is eternal.

On page 85 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy says, "The great Teacher knew both cause and effect, knew that truth communicates itself but never imparts error." Christian Science teaches that the scientific way to exclude error from consciousness is by acknowledging as true only Christ, Truth, and true ideas.

How vigilant Christian Scientists should be in guarding their thought and conversation from careless criticism, unkind comment, gloomy prognostic, or personal disapproval, lest they add to another's burden and allow their own thought to be clouded! A true Christian Scientist never ignores error; but neither does he accept it a bona fide. Mentally, or audibly, as the case may require, he rebukes each lie with the specific truth required to destroy it. His steadfast purpose is to express to others the right ideas which always bless and liberated mankind. His effort is to put to flight mortal sadness with spiritual gladness.

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