Editorial February 22, 1930 Issue

Acceptance

Violet Ker Seymer

It is essential to human welfare that one should know what to accept and what to reject in thought and experience. Anyone being offered some undesirable, unclean object would not reach out his hand to grasp or touch it. More essential still is it that we should repudiate the unacceptable suggestions of fear, discord, and general imperfection constantly knocking at our mental doors. Surely none should consent to be the mental hosts of unchristian beliefs which invariably wreak havoc wherever they are entertained. What is unacceptable to the creative Mind should not be acceptable to any thinking person. And there is comfort in reminding one's self that God, good, is incapable of imparting to His likeness anything which He has not originated, and which He therefore does not include in His consciousness.

For instance, the notion that sickness, or physical affliction of any kind, can by any possibility be a sacrifice pleasing to Deity is a relic of heathenism, vividly exposed in the prophet Malachi's statement, "If ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil?" And again he says, "Ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the Lord."

Christian Science replaces this barbaric sense of Deity with the revelation of God as all-powerful and forever beneficent divine Love. Its teaching overthrows the old altars of a mistaken sense of sacrifice and suffering, and erects in their place the altar of at-one-ment with God, from which rises the incense of gratitude, fervent faith, true peace. This condition of thought naturally begets health and holiness, and is acceptable to God, for it is the reaction in human consciousness of the perfect action and condition of divine Mind. Resignation to sickness is as mistaken as would be resignation to sin.

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