Editorial April 16, 1932 Issue

The Secret Place

Violet Ker Seymer

Christian Science elucidates the imagery of Scripture, its practical meaning, its demands, and its awards. For instance, on page 244 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mrs. Eddy writes, "The 'secret place,' whereof David sang, is unquestionably man's spiritual state in God's own image and likeness, even the inner sanctuary of divine Science, in which mortals do not enter without a struggle or sharp experience, and in which they put off the human for the divine."

Through grasping and applying this truth about spiritual man, the divinely mental process of salvation has begun in the experience of every Christian Scientist, and his necessity is to carry it on energetically to its conclusion—to the vanishing of the mortal concept, through the full appearing in consciousness of spiritual man. This is the way to compel the disappearance of sin, disease, and death, which are the unlikeness of God and man.

The spiritual state of man is discovered through spiritual inspiration, coupled with resistance to temptation. It should not appear hard, but glorious, to drop the false in favor of the true. As Christian Scientists, should we not love both the goal of perfect manhood and the mental way leading to it, even though it seem to be through and out of the valley of material sense? Ordinary travelers, bound for a beautiful shore, would not loiter in unpleasant, arid regions, but would hasten out of them, with the light of anticipated beauty already shining in their eyes. The "inner sanctuary of divine Science" is surely preferable to the atmosphere of mortal mind; and the Christian Scientist has once and for all made his choice between the real and the unreal. He is not an ordinary traveler, but a metaphysical seer, piercing the veil of matter, and entering into the holiness and the might of spiritual understanding. Dealing with error as deception, not fact, he refuses to loiter in the slough of sin and unbelief. Point by point, he presses on to the demonstration of true manhood.

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