Editorial October 13, 1934 Issue

God's Witness

Violet Ker Seymer

God's witness is never alone: he is conscious only and always of his true being in and of God, good. Even as God is never without His witness, so is His witness never without God. This is coexistence, harmonious and everlasting. Jesus said, "The Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him." Mind's image is incapable of disobedience. Christ Jesus was certain of himself as Mind's witness, and this certainty was imparted to him by Mind. At all times and in all places he was God's inspired, healthful, mighty witness.

God is reliable; God's witness is reliant. Scientifically, it is impossible to be anything but God's witness since only spiritual good is present to which to bear witness; evil has no presence, no witness. Divine Love is never separated from its image and there is never a moment, a place, or a condition wherein this cannot be scientifically proved. In all its phases—disease, fear, sin—evil is a fiction, and who would bear witness to fiction, to nothing? To do so would be to associate one's self with nothingness. Mrs. Eddy writes (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 67), "Thou shalt not bear false witness;' that is, thou shalt not utter a lie, either mentally or audibly, nor cause it to be thought." Here a great responsibility is laid upon the Christian Scientist for absolute integrity, spiritual veracity in his innermost thinking. But with the great contagion of the omnipresence of good in which to take refuge, why fear or yield to the contagion of suppositional evil?

There is only one way whereby one can cease being a false witness, and that is by being a true one; and the way to be a true one is to realize that the entire spiritual creation is bearing faithful witness to Principle, and that there is no second or fallen creation. Christian Science renders this realization possible to every student. Since divine Love is present, why not reflect it? Divine Principle is the source of man's fidelity. There is certainly enough Principle for all to draw upon, therefore enough spiritual illumination and fidelity for all to reflect. Then why believe that we are lurking in the shadows of unbelief, seeing that there actually are none? The faithful God has made and maintained man unfailingly faithful to Principle. With this fidelity the Christian Scientist needs to identify himself in thought, word, and deed. This necessitates rejecting every disparaging suggestion of the so-called carnal mind, and our love of good surely leads us to bear stanch witness to good and thereby overcome all enmity to good.

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