Editorial January 2, 1932 Issue

Daily Newness

Violet Ker Seymer

With the coming of the New Year the thoughts of Christian Scientists press still more eagerly forward, anticipating fresh progress, clearer vision of reality, and a higher standard than they had even yesterday.

On page 204 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs. Eddy writes, "The baptism of the Holy Ghost is the spirit of Truth cleansing from all sin; giving mortals new motives, new purposes, new affections, all pointing upward." This baptism, these new motives, purposes, and affections, we should seek daily, in order to conquer "all sin." Each day of the coming year we should gain more fluency in the new tongue of Spirit, that is to say, in thinking without lapse, fluently, from the standpoint of universal spiritual perfection. It should be perfectly natural for the Christian Scientist to think with God, good, unhaltingly, and to be spiritually energetic in excluding erroneous suggestions from the holy temple of his consciousness.

If, during the past year, we have at any point procrastinated in overcoming what should be overcome, we can do the very opposite throughout this coming year. We can awake to more and yet more righteousness. Paul writes, "It is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed." In effect, salvation is as far from our experience as false belief induces us to think it is, or as near as we spiritually know and humanly prove it to be. In the working out of his own salvation, each one is equally spiritually equipped by God, and this equipment is above any seeming handicap. Salvation is won mentally, through a change of thought and not of place, through overcoming mortal mind by reflecting divine Mind. No obstacle can delay us but the mental obstacle of our own consent to be deceived by some erroneous argument, some excuse, or self-justification of material sense.

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