Editorial September 26, 1931 Issue

Universal Thinking

Violet Ker Seymer

In "No and Yes" (p. 39) Mrs. Eddy writes, "True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection." This inclusion of "all mankind in one affection" would seem an impossible task if approached from the standpoint of material sense, to which some persons appear worthy of affection and others mainly unworthy.

What is one to do when the corporeal senses parade their evidence of a mortal with unlikable characteristics? Is one to esteem that which is not estimable? No, for he does not esteem in himself that which is nonestimable. But every student of Christian Science is required to cultivate, develop, his own spiritual sense in order that he may habitually perceive the real man behind the misrepresentation of the corporeal senses. He is to resist temptation and associate himself with God, omnipotent good, even as Jesus did. He is to be a law to himself that he loves God and all His perfect ideas so sincerely that he will seek to discern good everywhere. In this way he will gradually learn to exclude from his consciousness whatever denies Love and its infinite manifestation.

On page 24 of "No and Yes" our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, says, "There was never a moment in which evil was real." Before such phenomena as violent temper, wrath, unmerciful conduct, jealousy, tempests of fear, or physical suffering, the Christian Scientist must maintain his true thinking, and quietly prove that he is not dismayed, nor deceived, by these objectifications of mortal thought, these ebullitions of error.

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