Editorial November 4, 1933 Issue

One Perfect Purpose

Violet Ker Seymer

God's purpose is beneficent, irrepealable, and its glad recognition and appropriation rule out the belief in evil and bring health and harmony into human experience. There is no uncertainty in the purpose and power of Life, Love, and Truth to bless all creation. Divine Principle—Mind, Soul, Spirit—finds everlasting expression in intelligence, purity, right achievement. Hence all wavering and conjecture are ruled out as the Christian Scientist cherishes this unique purpose, enlists it on the side of health, righteousness, prosperity, and step by step learns to carry it out in all his actions.

Since divine power is included in the divine purpose, any presumption of contrariety to it is without power. The full understanding of God, cause, silences the arguments of fear, lack, disaster. The perfect purpose, power, and law constitute an invincible triad through obedience to which all may find redemption from their troubles; and they can find it in no other way under the sun.

Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, acknowledged no contrary purpose, malevolent power, or afflictive law. Standing by the facts of God's creation, he brought forth mental soundness, righteousness, health, activity, abundance, on behalf of those who humbly and teachably sought his aid. God's purpose applied to human needs is always regenerative, as may be seen by Paul's message to the Romans, "For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth." God created man to express His glory. In human experience Mind's power raises fallen hopes, transforms weakness into strength, and is made manifest throughout the earth in the healing and regenerating works wrought by Christian Science. Purposeless discord is being displaced by purposeful harmony. God's promises, moreover, are for each one, even though he be downhearted or hard-hearted, for it is to be noted that the message reads, "that I might shew my power in thee."

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