Editorial March 22, 1930 Issue

"Greater works"

Violet Ker Seymer

As Christian Scientists, demonstrators of a demonstrable religion, we cannot afford to fail regarding the task immediately before us, or to quail before it. Should we do so, how could we grow to the accomplishment of the "greater works" foretold by the Master? And did he not say, "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works"?

Jesus evidently anticipated continuous progress in demonstration, and he exemplified this progress in his own ministry. Not only did he heal the sick, but he also raised the dead. Had he failed in healing the sick, the Master could not have raised the dead. Had he failed in showing his disciples how to meet all their temporal needs through the understanding of God, he could not have fed the multitudes. Had he not so well understood how, through Christ, Truth, to meet the temporal needs of the multitudes, he could not have discerned the substance of real supply which sustained him spiritually during his fast in the wilderness.

One cannot imagine Jesus at a standstill in his ministry. We cannot picture our Way-shower sitting down mesmerized by doubt and discouragement, even though he may frequently have been tempted by them. His was always the progressive way, the way of surmounting, not circumventing, obstacles in the rising path of demonstration; and his way must be our way. Each lesser work, then, is to be hailed as the forerunner of the "greater works," and as leading on to our discernment of them. Each victory heralds another victory. To-day's task is our stepping-stone to to-morrow's task, and every task is to be seen as a divine one. Shall we step down from the stepping-stone to a lower level, and, faint-hearted, postpone our victory or else ask another to do the work which we may really be able to do for ourselves? We should lean more understandingly on the one infinite power, knowing that the Christ is equal to the task of bringing out every demonstration. Whether, then, there is some special fault in our character to be overcome, some business or domestic problem to be solved, physical discord to be healed, or the conquest over sorrow and self-pity to be won, we should in every case strive to prove that failure is unknown in Truth and that divine Mind is superabundantly supplying us with all the ideas and inspiration that we need. The divine Mind itself—to which we are but bearing witness—brings into manifestation the power of good and exposes the nonintelligence of evil.

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