Editorial June 18, 1938 Issue

Keeping Our Light Aglow

Violet Ker Seymer

The light of Spirit is eternally reflected by spiritual man, and this reflection, like its original, is limitless and invariable. But because of the seeming opacity of material sense, the light of our spiritual understanding must be carefully tended. Hence Mrs. Eddy's call to alertness in applying the lesson of the ten virgins in Jesus' parable, regarding which she writes in "Miscellaneous Writings" (pp. 341, 342), "We learn from this parable that neither the cares of this world nor the so-called pleasures or pains of material sense are adequate to plead for the neglect of spiritual light, that must be tended to keep aglow the flame of devotion whereby to enter into the joy of divine Science demonstrated."

How wisely our Leader puts her followers on guard against becoming absorbed in worldly cares, engrossed in the evidence of material sense, deceived by a mistaken sense of values! The fact that man is not material, but spiritual, must be ever before our thought, and our prime and continuous purpose must be to prove this fact in daily experience. Therefore if any problem looms particularly large or some illicit appeal of the senses seems especially difficult to resist, our need is not to slacken, but to redouble our vigilance in filling our consciousness with the oil of consecration to Truth and Love.

Inherent in every normal individual is a certain measure of love of good, a certain ability to respond to the attraction of good. And this love of good, infinitesimal though it may be at the outset of our study of Christian Science, is to be seen as the reflection of divine Love, and therefore subject to everlasting unfoldment. By nurturing this natural love of righteousness we associate ourselves with the demands of divine Principle and free ourselves from the counter demands of mortal mind which would hold its witnesses in the belief of pleasurable and painful material sensation.

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