Editorial March 15, 1930 Issue

Remembrance

Violet Ker Seymer

Only that which is known to God, the omniscient Mind, is worthy of our constant remembrance. There is always more to know about our heavenly Father and His creation, and His knowledge is all that should be sought, retained, and dwelt upon in both dark and sunny hours. And because there is more to know of good, there is more to unknow of error's false claims. This unknowing is essential to our progress. But some of us have a way of remembering what we should forget and of forgetting what we should remember. In general we are apt to retain the memory of some petty error and assiduously rehearse it, although Mrs. Eddy points out that "error rehearses error" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 188).

In Zechariah we read, "They shall remember me in far countries." Christian Science is redeeming and healing those seeking its help, even though they have drifted into the far country of physical suffering or of sinfulness; those who seem to have been driven to atheism or reduced to despair by affiction. It reveals to them in place of this far country of unbelief and want the nearness of God and His image, the ever-presence of divine Love, and their own ability to draw nearer to the Father of all.

Our part is to rise in thought to receive, reflect, Mind's bounty to man, for Isaiah says, "Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways." As we meet the ways of God we part with mortal ways. God, good, meets "him that rejoiceth," not him that repineth.

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