Editorial November 3, 1934 Issue

The Entireness of Good

Violet Ker Seymer

The one way to prove that evil is nil is by giving evidence of the entireness of good, derived from God. This we may do by constantly adding to our understanding of Christian Science, and increasing our reflection of the divine nature. Instead of somewhat blindly, remorsefully, fearfully, and with inward misgivings, combating faults of character and errors of belief, we should adopt as the basis of our progress the entireness of good. With diligence and full confidence in right results, we should carry out the advice of Peter, "Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; . . . temperance; . . . patience; . . . godliness; . . . brotherly kindness; . . . charity." This constant adding of good necessarily displaces in our thinking the negative belief in evil.

Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 293), "Christian Science brings to light Truth and its supremacy, universal harmony, the entireness of God, good, and the nothingness of evil." We are faced with "entireness" and "nothingness" —the yes and the no of Christian Science. Being alert in reserving the "yes" for good and the "no" for error—never denying where we should affirm, nor affirming where we should deny—we shall rise beyond faltering faith into scientific understanding of "the beauty of holiness," and so shall march on clear-eyed, never halting in our progressive demonstration of unadulterated righteousness.

Through Christian Science we may have learned how to cease fearing matter, but may for a period have been betrayed into shifting fear of matter to fear of matter's higher stratum called mortal mind—regarding it as causative and a pitiless lawmaker. This is illogical and foolish, for since matter is unreal, so is mortal mind. As Christian Scientists, we are required to be thorough in our denunciation of error. We must be fearless and fundamental in unmasking each one of the travesties of so-called mortal mind and aligning ourselves with the truth of being and its invariable dominion. The scientific fact is that the infinitude of Mind, the entireness of divine good, representing all-power and all-presence, leaves neither power nor presence for either matter or mortal mind. And as we gratefully apply this divine logic we are panoplied in both the spirit and the letter of the truth. Jesus said that his sheep would hear his voice, and that "a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers." The consistent thinker is not duped by the shifting travesties of the liar and father of lies. Disbelieving the lies, are we not bound to disbelieve mortal mind, the liar?

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