Editorial August 28, 1937 Issue

Truth's Liberating Sentence

Violet Ker Seymer

Broadly speaking, an individual accepts Truth's sentence of freedom or else mortal mind's verdict of bondage, and the nature of his acceptance determines the nature of his earthly experience.

From the lips of the Psalmist comes this utterance filled with blessedness and reassurance for all who understand it and make it their own: "Let my sentence come forth from thy presence." The sentence coming forth from the presence of God is in perfect accord with the nature of God and the harmony of man. The presence and sentence of God stand for the health, strength, and purity which are immune from diminution, defilement, or destruction. In actual spiritual fact, the divine sentence alone is real, and its effect in human experience is liberating.

Certain utterances in the Old Testament throw light on this question. In Proverbs, for instance, it is written, "A divine sentence is in the lips of the king." Interpreted in its highest sense, this passage may be taken to refer to the sentence of God, omnipotent divine Principle, whose government of the spiritual universe and man is supreme, unquestioned. Through Christian Science this divine sentence of spiritual perfection and harmony has been made available to humanity, stricken as it often seems to be with various forms of discord appearing gradually or suddenly and claiming to be chronic or intermittent.

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