Editorial December 19, 1936 Issue

Satisfying Our Thirst

Violet Ker Seymer

"The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul." It would be impossible to compute how many individuals have found that Christian Science has diverted them from debasing, counterfeit appetites of the flesh and stirred in them the thirst after spiritual perfection. Much of the discomfort, physical and moral, endured by individuals is due to their vainly fighting against their higher nature. Christian Science inspires its students to enlist all their efforts on the side of reality, spirituality, harmony, and so win the holy victory.

"Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing." Whenever our desires are in line with God's law of infinite spiritual unfoldment, and so earnestly cherished that we live up to them, we enjoy ever deeper spiritual satisfaction, and also human evidences of improvement.

Mrs. Eddy voices the half-uttered cry of humanity when she says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 369), "We thirst for inspiring wine from the vine which our Father tends." Those who have gone far down the road of intemperance are surprised to find how easily the old false appetite leaves them when they are intelligently convinced, through Christian Science, that man is not material but spiritual, not weak but firm, not impure but pure, not faithless but faithful, not perturbed but at peace in divine righteousness. Appropriating and applying to oneself the facts of man's spiritual identity, one is divinely led into ways of harmony and ceases to be misled by corporeal sense. In short, one awakens to a new self and a new world. No one is robbed of enjoyment by finding out its spiritual nature. He is robbed only through believing that enjoyment is material and confined within the evidences of the five senses.

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