Editorial January 1, 1938 Issue

Happiness "in conformity with Christ"

Violet Ker Seymer

One can hardly estimate the value to humanity of learning the secret of a common happiness. This understanding of universal happiness, its divine basis and perpetual availability, would make it impossible for anyone to harm another through envy, scorn, antipathy, or any other disruptive human belief. It would play a great part in ruling out the greed, rivalry, and rankling fear which set nations warring against one another.

Christian Science reveals the spiritual basis of happiness, together with the unerring way to attain it. On page 337 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes, "For true happiness, man must harmonize with his Principle, divine Love; the Son must be in accord with the Father, in conformity with Christ." An unhappy feeling is an untrue feeling—a contradiction of Christliness. True happiness, as understood in Christian Science, does away with the discordant, unprincipled thoughts and feelings which betray men into unhappiness.

The happiness which is "in conformity with Christ" is unmarred by any personal or mortal element, by any sense of demoralization and disturbance. Real happiness, being spiritual, is flawless and invariable. It is at hand to banish the selfishness which gives rise to a hurtful attitude and hurt feelings. Happiness is generally thought of a purely personal matter, but the scientific fact is that man's spiritual individuality includes happiness. So if we are to find happiness, we must "put off the old man with his deeds," and "put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him."

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