Editorial September 3, 1938 Issue

The Divine Influence Ever Present

Violet Ker Seymer

A human being is blessed in proportion as he develops and utilizes spiritual understanding. The endeavor of rightminded parents is that their offspring shall be upright in character and of service to their fellows. To this end they seek to develop their children's gifts and qualities not only intellectually and artistically, but also morally and spiritually. The one who wrote, "O God, thou hast taught me from my youth," evidently recognized and respected the everpresent divine influence which had been with him from his youth.

The greatest Teacher the world has ever known is Christ Jesus. He was able to teach, heal, redeem, and liberate because he himself was incessantly taught of God. With profound conviction and confidence he could say: "It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me." Of him Mrs. Eddy writes (Retrospection and Introspection, p. 91), "No purer and more exalted teachings ever fell upon human ears than those contained in what is commonly known as the Sermon on the Mount." His endeavor as a teacher was to impress his followers with the one wholly divine influence and its availability to all. With him, practice and proof, teaching and demonstrating the truth of being, were indivisible.

The same exalted vision and teachableness enabled our Leader to receive the revelation of the Science of being, hold it sacred, record it in the Christian Science textbook, and establish the Cause of Christian Science. Every follower of Christ Jesus and of our Leader must therefore be perpetually teachable if he would be perpetually progressive. He must bring forth proofs of the redemptive power of divine Love. He must be single-hearted, zealous. Good must be to him all-in-all. He must recognize and yield to the everpresent influence of divine Principle.

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