Editorial November 29, 1930 Issue

Assimilation

Violet Ker Seymer

In "Retrospection and Introspection" our Leader writes (p. 28), "This is my endeavor, to be a Christian, to assimilate the character and practice of the anointed." As Christian Scientists we naturally desire to assimilate the same character and practice; and this entails increasingly feeding and refreshing our consciousness by thoroughly grasping and applying what we are reading.

In Revelation the injunction of the angel regarding the "little book" is, "Take it, and eat it up." Does not this "eat it up" call for earnest assimilation of what we read? Does it not point out the need of something more than superficial and fragmentary perusal of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy? Christian Science is both an illumination and a corrective. Each time we close our books after a period of study, even though it be a short one, something more of the divine nature should have been assimilated and something more of fear, resentment, discouragement—traits of error—cast out of thought.

On page 317 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs. Eddy writes, "Scarcely a moiety, compared with the whole of the Scriptures and the Christian Science textbook, is yet assimilated spiritually by the most faithful seekers; yet this assimilation is indispensable to the progress of every Christian Scientist." There is always more to learn of Truth and to unlearn of error; more to appropriate and more to discard; more to discover and to express of spiritual man.

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