Editorial June 18, 1932 Issue

Worship and Dedication

Violet Ker Seymer

Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 596): "Paul saw in Athens an altar dedicated 'to the unknown God.' Referring to it, he said to the Athenians: 'Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you.'" Through the practice of Christian Science the worship of Deity is enlightened and brings practical blessings. God, infinite Mind, needs no visible altar, no material sacrifices, but only the sacrifice of material ignorance, idolatry, and their dire results.

The Christian Scientist knows that his worship consists in giving up sin, false thinking, and in manifesting the qualities of spiritual man. The true altar stands for spiritual consecration. The individual himself knows the quality of his own unuttered thoughts and the extent to which he is or is not dedicating his thought and life to the purposes of God, good.

Spiritual worship entails endeavoring to maintain one's consciousness as free from guile or adulteration as Truth itself, and this is the goal before the Christian Scientist. At the sacred, unseen altar of spiritual consecration he strives to lay down all that is faulty, unworthy, self-indulgent, and to devote himself whole-heartedly to the demonstration of God's power on earth. In Christian Science, God is no longer unknown, but is revealed as divine Principle, Love. Therefore the life of the Christian Scientist must exemplify universal Love and the integrity of divine Mind. This is the task to which he should dedicate himself unremittingly.

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