Editorial May 31, 1930 Issue

Encouraging Changes

Violet Ker Seymer

The saying that the leopard cannot change his spots has sometimes been interpreted to mean that one's dominating defects of character are unalterable, or one's physical state unhealable. But the fact that God is changeless good can be applied to the healing of every condition mistakenly labeled incurable.

The third chapter of Zechariah portrays the change which took place in Joshua, who is there described as "standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him." Apparently much mental cleansing was taking place, for the "filthy garments" were taken from him and the voice of the Lord said, "Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment." This mental change from belief in mortal impurity to the fact of spiritual purity takes place quite naturally through the practice of Christian Science. In fact, this change in individual consciousness is divinely inevitable. It is only the darkness of material ignorance which causes mortals to grope their way through life, victimized by countless temptations; and, even as the action of divine Principle wrought desirable changes in the consciousness of Joshua, and healed receptive multitudes in the days of Jesus, so now the light of Truth, in other words Christian Science, is redeeming and blessing those who imbibe its teachings.

"I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed." God's creation, including man, has not been added to, nor has it deteriorated in any respect whatever. What can this abstract fact do for those who emphatically need to change from sin to holiness, suffering to health, sorrow to joy, and, moreover, to change quickly, ere they succumb to their torments? It can revive their hopes, satisfy their reason, and establish in them an intelligent sense of their true relation to God, changeless good. In short, it can heal them.

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