Editorial March 6, 1937 Issue

One Perfect Heritage

Violet Ker Seymer

Some individuals are depressed by the conviction that sooner or later they are doomed to express family failings in one way or another. When secret fears are entertained, they are likely to affect one's standard of health and morals. But this need not be. Real heritage has the support of spiritual law, and it is a boon, not a bane.

Man's irrevocable heritage is oneness with God, the only creator. In bringing this heritage to light, Christian Science frees those who have believed themselves deprived of righteousness, prosperity, and health, owing to theories of heredity or other discordant circumstances. The eighteenth chapter of Ezekiel describes how supposedly hereditary stains may be effaced and personal shortcomings redeemed. It makes plain that there is no longer any handicap for one who turns from the old evil ways and establishes his own true sonship by right doing.

Christ Jesus stated the truth about inheritance in two simple words: "Our Father." But one must not overlook his command, "Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven." This command means that, like Nicodemus, we must see that the "new birth" opens to us the gates of heaven. In other words, the true sense of man's origin brings us the spiritual awakening which obliterates the old handicaps.

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