Editorial November 8, 1930 Issue

Man Unfallen

Violet Ker Seymer

To some, autumn seems a period of departing beauty, and the sight of leaves falling silently earthward causes a little pang of regret. Yet the old leaves must fall if the tender foliage of spring is to replace them. So each falling leaf should be seen as the promise of fresh beauty on its way.

As Christian Scientists we should be glad to let fall finite and material theories, however traditional, in order that higher ideals may bear fruit in our lives, and human hope and affection be purged and safeguarded by immutable divine Love.

Whoever is earnestly turning his gaze heavenward, yet still occasionally broods unavailingly over his past or his present failings, without correcting them, needs to drop that unreal, outworn concept of himself completely. Every false thinker is unsatisfied, unprogressive, and is apt to shrivel as a leaf that is touched by the frost. But the student of Christian Science, pressing on to salvation, dismisses all retrospection and introspection that is merely gloomy and therefore fruitless, in order that his consciousness may be penetrated with the fact that, as Mrs. Eddy says on page 17 of "No and Yes," "In Science there is no fallen state of being." In other words, the evidence of the five physical senses is not the truth regarding spiritual man in God's likeness. Therefore, if one would cease thinking of himself as "fallen," he must obviously keep thinking of himself as "in Science," sheltered from bleak mortal theories by the spiritual law of well being. One who thinks in line with Truth is never beyond the place of harmony.

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