Editorial July 5, 1930 Issue

Choosing and Refusing

Violet Ker Seymer

In the book of Job, Elihu said, "Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good." An indispensable factor in choosing the right way is the righteous determination to refuse the wrong way; to refuse to take any mental byway, aside from the track of Truth. Every backward step can be retraced, but prevention is preferable. When we have to refuse any temptation, ours must not be a weak refusal, but a firm and permanent one. It can be based on the fact that spiritual man has no weak place in consciousness, for he exists only as the full and flawless reflection of God's own perfection.

The issue of choosing and refusing is much simplified when we take divine Principle as our guard and guide, and spiritual man as our model. As Christian Scientists we know how to distinguish between right and wrong and how to abide in the right. Let us suppose that we have before us a problem of sickness. It may seem a difficult one, the sickness stubborn and even alarming; but others have been confronted with just such a problem, and by choosing the way of fidelity and perseverance, instead of fear and discouragement, they have come through, and so can we.

At the beginning of any demonstration it is comparatively easy to choose the right way, the spiritual way; but we must continue to choose it all along the way up to victory. On page 5 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mrs. Eddy says, "Continue to choose whom ye will serve." This continuance of right choice and right resistance insures our constant victory.

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