Article September 23, 1933 Issue

Right Activity

WALTER EDWARD LOWE

Every progressive student of Christian Science must of necessity become active in promoting the growth of the movement. In order to do this a spiritual understanding of right activity should be sought and comprehended. Nearly twenty centuries ago Jesus laid the foundation stones for such understanding when he said: "Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" and, "Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples." Here then we have the basis for all right activity.

Having discerned the foundation of Truth on which to build, we must love God supremely and find joy in righteousness, for thus only shall we express much good. The beloved Way-shower set us a great example of right activity in his unfailing love for mankind, in his demonstrations of Truth, and in his instant rejection of all belief in evil. To temptations he said, "Get thee hence, Satan"! This stern command admits of no misunderstanding, no halfway measures, no dallying with false arguments. It teaches us not to put off the doing of good until some more convenient time, for, as surely as we parley with evil, so surely temptation, in the guise maybe of self-justification, self-pity, or a false sense of sympathy or loss, endeavors to hold us back.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 40) Mrs. Eddy says, "Remove error from thought, and it will not appear in effect." We should refuse evil a hearing under any pretext whatever, and thus keep our thinking clean and pure. Jesus best understood the vital need for right activity, and his brief earthly career, so grandly simple, was full to overflowing of joyous accomplishment. He rejected the false evidence of the material senses, and healed the sick and sinning through his understanding of the Father's business.

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