Editorial September 24, 1938 Issue

Keeping Busy

Violet Ker Seymer

In Christian Science the primal and highest activity is recognized as perpetual true witnessing, the maintaining of a pure state of consciousness, blessed in itself and blessed in its effect upon others. In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 252), "Keep yourselves busy with divine Love." Whoever follows this advice stands ready to help his fellows according to divine guidance, but is never a busybody, collecting and relaying useless or pernicious gossip. He disagrees with the material evidence of disease, despair, impoverishment, and holds to the availability of health, joy, abundance.

To keep oneself "busy with divine Love" means perpetually reflecting universal Love in order to awaken humanity from the nightmare of materiality and to release it from the discordant effects of false belief. In short, it means healing. It also means entertaining, in regard to others, only such thoughts as can profitably be entertained on one's own behalf. To the Christian Scientist, the unseen business of life is to go through each day maintaining in his consciousness the harmony and immortality of spiritual existence, and this is indicated in the definition of "Day" in Science and Health (p. 584). This way of keeping busy is open to each one and it is the sure way of finding heaven on earth.

While reading in newspapers the world's news—the diary of human beliefs and happenings—the student of Science needs to keep before him the fact that the one creation is wholly spiritual and is pronounced by the creator to be "very good." He needs to be on guard against absorbing the false news and accepting the discordant mental pictures which would make him unmindful of the glad tidings of spiritual reality. While he is scanning the signs of the times it is his business to know that the divine Principle, Love, which is omnipresent is also omnipotent and omniactive, and that "none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?" This statement indicates that, scientifically speaking, there is no evil or material element attempting to stay the hand of God, since God, Spirit, is all-power and all-presence. To maintain this constructive, redemptive attitude is the most valuable service one can render humanity and oneself, for it establishes spiritual love and confidence, in place of fear and condemnation.

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