Editorial February 1, 1930 Issue

Guarding Our Crown

Violet Ker Seymer

In Revelation we find the admonition, "Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown." The sovereignty of God, good, is the supreme fact of creation which the Christian Scientist sets himself to prove by humbly, zealously claiming his divine right to show forth the nothingness of every suggestion of error that may present itself to his thought. He reproves and does not accept it. Hence the parallel admonition from our Leader, Mrs. Eddy (Pulpit and Press, p. 3), "Know, then, that you possess sovereign power to think and act rightly, and that nothing can dispossess you of this heritage and trespass on Love." To know this is to prove it.

The effort of the so-called carnal mind is to throw dust in our eyes in order to blind us to the sovereign power of God, which one and all may learn to reflect. When unmasked and resisted, the presumptuous claims of evil cannot prevent the true thinker from proving the dominion of spiritual health over the belief in sickness, of joy over sorrow, holiness over sin, and Life over death. Whereas the so-called carnal mind would whisper inert resignation to wrong conditions, the Christ, Truth, demands the incessant demonstration of spiritual dominion.

Guarding our crown means that we must discern and utilize the qualities with which God has endowed His likeness. The Christian Scientist should always rejoice in courageously facing the erroneous arguments which stimulate him to strive more valiantly for the crown. In order to abide by the true, spiritual estimate of himself and others, and rightly to gauge all situations, the Christian Scientist starts with the premise that, as God's likeness, he can have no life, love, motive, or desire but that which is begotten of God, good. The most effectual way of guarding our crown, our demonstration of spiritual power, is by claiming single-mindedness on the scientific ground that the divine Mind is the only Mind governing man. Single-mindedness is forever expressed in true activity and an exalted life-purpose.

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