Editorial October 28, 1939 Issue

Equanimity

Evelyn F. Heywood

The word of command, "Peace, be still," to every form of error, individual and collective, national and international, can be uttered with soverignty by him alone who has established the quietness of spiritual strength within his own consciousness. He knows that his only responsibility is to see that peace reigns within his own thought as the outcome of his confidence in the supremacy of Mind.

When the nothingness of evil was revealed to Mary Baker Eddy, she saw that the seeming power which had throughout human history challenged and often appeared to be stronger than omnipotent good, was but a mockery of strength. In writing of her discovery of the unreality of evil, she declares (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 110), "The equipollence of God brought to light another glorious proposition,—man's perfectibility and the establishment of the kingdom of heaven on earth." She saw from that moment that for those who were willing to accept the Science of Christ and obey its rules, the apparent struggle between two forces—good and evil—forever at war with one another, would lessen until it finally ceased. To those with spiritual illumination, all power would be recognized as vested in one source and authority alone, that of God.

This was what had been voiced and often proved throughout the Old Testament by those who communed with God; this was what Jesus had preached and lived, in his assurance of the Father's care for His offspring and in the destruction of all phases of evil. The peace which Jesus brought to numberless lives lay in his consciousness of the supremacy of spiritual law that knows neither defeat nor delay.

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