Article March 30, 1940 Issue

"Yea, Lord"

VIOLET KER SEYMER

Questions such as these may present themselves to a student of Christian Science: "Is it right for me to affirm truths which seem beyond my present understanding? Is it honest for me to declare freedom from fear and doubt, while their shadow appears to darken my thinking and delay my healing?" Yes, it is right to entertain absolutely true thoughts about oneself, and to confirm them by correspondingly true declarations of man's perfect spiritual individuality. Yes, it is honest to affirm one's present God-given freedom from negative errors and terrors, even though they seem not yet to have yielded to the effulgence of spiritual light. Now and forever harmony is omnipresent and inharmony absent.

Mrs. Eddy gives the following instruction in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 63): "When we deny the authority of sin, we begin to sap it; for this denunciation must precede its destruction." To declare in Science that, as a perfect idea of perfect Mind, one is endowed with infinite understanding and confidence, is not a human boast, covering error, but a divinely sustained affirmation, revealing individuality. Healing, redemption, restitution, are inevitable when we associate ourselves with God, omnipotent good, not with mortal mind, impotent error.

There is deep encouragement here for one to whom the way seems long, and victory distant; for one whose progress does not seem commensurate with his study and the help he is receiving from a practitioner; for one who is still taking a personal view of his problem, believing that it is attached to himself, his body, his character or circumstances. According to physical sense evidence this may appear to be the case; but every lying suggestion of mortal mind is to be denounced and reversed on the ground of its nonexistence and nonidentification as a person, a condition, or an afflictive law.

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