Editorial July 27, 1940 Issue

Decision

Evelyn F. Heywood

When Christ Jesus declared, "I and my Father are one," he set forth in one brief sentence the keynote to every decision which men are at any time called upon to make. On page 4 of "Pulpit and Press" Mrs. Eddy has written: "You have simply to preserve a scientific, positive sense of unity with your divine source, and daily demonstrate this. Then you will find that one is as important a factor as duodecillions in being and doing right, and thus demonstrating deific Principle." The belief that he is at the mercy of the decisions of others or of his own indecisions for good or evil, ceases for the individual when he understands his supreme unity with divine Principle. From thence forward he knows that whatever human events may present, concerning himself or his relations with others, his identity and destiny are scientifically and positively preserved.

"Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision," declared the prophet Joel. For each one the valley will be left behind for the ascending mountain path as, conscious of his divine unity, he repudiates all fainthearted doubts and queries and claims the calm certainty of judgment and action born of wisdom and Love. Thus will he begin to prove true in small things and in big the prophetic assurance of Joel, "So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain."

As long as men postpone the one vital decision—that of defining and preserving their unity with God—circumstances and events will continually present themselves, contradictory and misleading, to be decided or left undecided on the basis of human evidence and conjecture. Not along such lines are spiritual progress and unfoldment to be won.

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