Editorial June 21, 1930 Issue

The Holiness of Life

Violet Ker Seymer

Some may have thought of holiness as involving human solitude, even monasticism. But Christian Science teaches one how to express holiness wherever his duties lead him; for holiness implies activity and service to one's fellow men. Such sociability is no barrier to holiness, but rather its gateway.

Christ Jesus carried holiness with him into rich and poor men's dwellings. No human contacts contaminated him, lowered his motives, or made him forgetful of his ministry. This spiritual, inviolable quality constitutes a complete shield from all temptations of the carnal mind. Holiness, moreover, is not merely one isolated virtue, but may be regarded as the blending of all spiritual qualities.

The promise reads, "Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy." In God's universe there is nothing to tempt man, since only the "I AM" is reflected everywhere. Armed with this scientific and demonstrable fact, the Christian Scientist denies corporeality as a false claim of finity, an untrue trespasser, a groundless usurper of Spirit's omnipresence. Is it not evident that without the belief in intelligent matter there could be no phenomena called sin, sickness, death? A belief in unholiness is then, primarily, a phase of lack, a negative state, a belief in separation from the all-holy creator of man. There is no truth in such a belief, for God, good, fills all space. Divine Mind is inseparable from every one of its ideas and is the mainspring of all their activity.

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