Editorial May 21, 1932 Issue

Man's God-given Dominion

Duncan Sinclair

How often do men seem to be the slaves of circumstances, suffering from sickness or the effects of evil doing! Think of the fear that haunts many of them with regard to disease, fear lest they may become victims of it, lest they may contract it perhaps by contact with an unhealthy environment. Think of the dread of many that they or their children may come under an evil influence and be vitiated by it. One of the chief reasons for the anxiety of many parents is the dread they entertain lest their sons and daughters may not be able to stand against the temptations they may encounter outside the home circle. It is only too evident that mankind in general has but a feeble sense of dominion over the evils which it believes to be indigenous to human existence.

It may be argued that much has been done to prevent disease by means of sanitation and isolation of the sick. Indeed, cleanliness—itself undoubtedly the effect of better and purer thinking—has done and is doing much to promote and to preserve a better sense of health. Yet the fact remains that many live under the pernicious belief that they are liable to go down under disease should they find themselves in what is termed a disease-laden atmosphere. They do not possess that sense of dominion which would render them immune. In a similar way there are those who believe themselves to have little resisting power where evil is concerned. They readily fall under the allurements of sin, too often with tragic results.

Now the question arises, Is it possible for men to gain dominion over evil, including disease and all other forms of inharmony? Christian Science answers that it is possible; and it shows how it can be done. Christian Science teaches that God is infinite Mind, and that man is God's—Mind's—idea; also, that man is the reflection—the full reflection—of God, and that he thus embraces in his consciousness all other right ideas. This is the same as saying that man has dominion over all the lesser right ideas of God. Nothing can annul this fact. Nothing can change it in any way. It is as fixed, as permanent, as God Himself.

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