Editorial May 8, 1937 Issue

Expression

Violet Ker Seymer

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy states (p. 331), "Everything in God's universe expresses Him." This positive, comprehensive statement provides for no unexpressed good or expressed evil. All spiritual ideas participate and are united in God's infinite self-expression. By his admission that divine Mind imparts beauty and variety of expression, the student of Christian Science pledges himself to reject the notion that he has but little good to express, or else that he is deprived of the faculty of right expression. Spiritually understood, the faculty of expression is unerring, invariable, and boundless.

Of necessity, Love is expressed in love. One who has hitherto harbored resentment, animosity, morbid introspection, loneliness, selfishness, learns through Christian Science to reject this false presentment and identify himself with Love's own expression of love and joy. Gradually he discerns and expresses the intelligence and wisdom which divine Principle is imparting to all without stint or favoritism. Humble in his recognition of the oneness of cause and effect, he discards the egotistic notion that, by his failings, he can impede Love's own expression of harmony. Thus he abandons the old belief in a restricted, personal standard, and rejoices in proving his God-given ability to express "the beauty of holiness."

If one appears to need more intelligence and greater dependability, he can gain these qualities by accepting without reservation the scientific fact that "God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis" (ibid., p. 258). Is God boundless and man bound by mortal mind and matter? No. Man is consciously spiritual, free, and complete. Spiritual progress and development, springing as they do from a "boundless basis," are above the suggestion of mortal lack. The ideas of divine Mind express freedom, not handicap.

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