Editorial June 26, 1937 Issue

True Counsel

Violet Ker Seymer

What inspired the prophet Isaiah to record this divine counsel, "Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me"? It was the voice of Spirit proclaiming the complete righteousness, health, and harmony of man in God's likeness. The first step toward finding the guidance we need lies in our willingness to seek it not from persons or according to human judgment, but prayerfully, teachably, at its fount in divine Mind. Mrs. Eddy states (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 359): "Men give counsel; but they give not the wisdom to profit by it. To ask wisdom of God, is the beginning of wisdom."

Take the question of health, for instance. Most people in case of sickness consult physical conditions and then put their trust in the prescribed physical remedies. They look away from the harmonious evidence of the spiritual senses instead of toward it. The Christian Scientist is taught to seek the counsel of Spirit and spiritual perfection, and to reject the often distressing evidence of the physical senses. He learns that divine counsel is universally available, and that blessings are at hand for all who follow it.

Underlying the counsel of Christ Jesus, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect," is Truth's law of perfection, which alone rules imperfection out of human thought and experience. Many a student of Christian Science, formerly the slave of bad temper and temperament, terrorism of the senses, invalidism, has demonstrated through Christian Science his divinely bestowed ability to express health and freedom from sinful indulgences. He takes counsel of God, the only creator, and so glimpses his spiritual identity, exempt from materiality. Thus he avoids the bewildering labyrinth of human opinion and becomes conscious of the guidance of divine Mind and the way to follow it on all occasions. To obey the counsel, "Ask me of things to come concerning my sons," means taking counsel of divine Principle in all that relates to intelligence, law, government, justice, mercy.

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