Editorial July 13, 1940 Issue

One Cause and Effect

Evelyn F. Heywood

Success does not originate or appear of itself. It has no independent, disconnected entity. It is the outcome of something to which it owes its existence, and its value or permanence is regulated thereby. The word "success" means that which follows or comes after; it is an effect or consequence of some thought or action. We know from the account of creation in the first chapter of Genesis that when "the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them," they were a complete success. Of this divine creation man is the full and perfect expression.

Jesus summed up the dual, interdependent relation of cause and effect in the following words: "The Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him." Here indeed is an assurance of invincible accomplishment. In this correlation and reciprocity of Principle and idea, of unity and obedience, is found the explanation of the triumph of Christ Jesus over every obstacle, and the establishment of spiritual law in its place. Referring to this unparalleled experience, Mary Baker Eddy has written on page 45 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "Jesus vanquished every material obstacle, overcame every law of matter, and stepped forth from his gloomy restingplace, crowned with the glory of a sublime success, an everlasting victory."

In the whole of divine Mind's vast creation, we know that there are no failures; that that which proceeds from God is perfect in its inception and development, and man is the witness to this success. Yet mortal man, whose basic reasoning is hazardous and imperfect, whose undertakings are jeopardized in advance by what may at one time appear too great and at another too little reliance on his own efforts, how sadly handicapped he is, how quickly satisfied with what he calls success! How as quickly mortified and discouraged by what he calls failure!

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