Article May 25, 1940 Issue

No "lesser loyalty"

EMMA EASTON NEWMAN

Writing on the subject of loyalty in her principal work, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy says (p. 183): "Divine Mind rightly demands man's entire obedience, affection, and strength. No reservation is made for any lesser loyalty."

The first step, then, in rendering entire loyalty to God, lies in obedience to Truth. Complete obedience would eliminate submission to fear's suggestions, to demands of so-called medical laws, to beliefs in ills handed down from progenitors, and to the false belief that advancing years imply receding activity or usefulness. If years are thought of as advancing, why not choose the constructive expectation of advancing in strength and ability? Mortal mind promises advancement up to a point of middle years, and then predicts a recession of usefulness. Accepting this doleful prospect, the human race hampers itself.

That hope which, as Pope declared, "springs eternal in the human breast," must be the true hope that nothing is inevitable but good. The entire obedience which divine Mind demands, precludes obedience to erroneous suggestions of class antagonisms and racial and national animosities, for these are excluded from pure Mind and its expression, man and the universe. It is comprehensible that if everyone on this planet acceded to no "lesser loyalty," but rendered fealty to God alone, there would be no distressing and unsolved problems, and the prayer, "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven," would be fulfilled.

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