Editorial July 23, 1938 Issue

Salvation, not Condemnation

Violet Ker Seymer

Spiritual understanding and salvation are inseparable, for this understanding, born of Spirit, apprehends God, good. Plato gave utterance to a profound truth when he said, "What thou seest, that thou beest." To see good and express what he sees is the Christian Scientist's paramount purpose. Of the one who has "clean hands, and a pure heart," it is written in Psalms, "He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation." God-bestowed righteousness is unsullied and permanent. On this basis, whoever maintains the activity of true thinking by his reflection of the one Mind shall and does "receive the blessing from the Lord."

If we are experiencing discord in any direction, we need to discover in what respect we are agreeing with and submitting to the discordant evidence of the physical senses. Having discovered the nature of the lapse, we can resolutely and permanently turn away from the error to the truth of being, and thereby demonstrate harmony. Each one of us can awaken to use the law of salvation still more energetically and co-operate still more consistently with the healing power of Truth.

In "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 261) our Leader writes, "Man as God's idea is already saved with an everlasting salvation." Perhaps material sense argues that one is so stupid, so steeped in sin and fear, that it would seem impossible and unsuitable to think of himself as God's perfect idea. It is evident that sin and sinner are the very reverse of Mind and its idea. But mortal mind's insidious whisper that we are not yet worthy to declare "the whole truth and nothing but the truth" is the lie of the serpent. Should we entertain this lie, we should be turning our back on the freedom of God-inspired thinking which Christian Science presents for the use of all. Each one can shake himself free from the incubus of belief in evil by spiritually understanding that only God and His perfect ideas truly exist, and that in Truth there are no evil influences or evildoers.

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