Editorial October 25, 1930 Issue

Completeness

Violet Ker Seymer

When belief in lack tempts us we should straightway acknowledge the completeness of the revelation of Christian Science and its demonstrable elucidation of the Master's mission. On page 221 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mrs. Eddy writes: "Earth has not known another so great and good as Christ Jesus. Then can we find a better moral philosophy, a more complete, natural, and divine Science of medicine, or a better religion than his?"

A closer study and more constant application of Christian Science will satisfy our desire for integrity. But there can be no complete recognition of man's identity without complete surrender of the personal sense of self. This recognition and surrender occurs gradually in human experience.

Christian Science has exposed the unsatisfying nature and scope of mortal personality, and the fully satisfying nature and scope of man's spiritual identity. Therefore, one who would rise to the consciousness of spiritual completeness must beware of justifying or condoning error in his own thoughts and character, or of postponing its correction. He must not intensify sickness, sin, and lack by gratuitously and continuously voicing them; for this voicing of error certainly impresses it more deeply in mortal thought and makes it more difficult to eradicate.

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