Editorial August 30, 1941 Issue

Discovery

Evelyn F. Heywood

"One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so," wrote Hazlitt in "The Spirit of the Age." Not the discovery of one truth alone, but the discovery of the truth about all Truth was Mary Baker Eddy's contribution to this and every future age. On page 504 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" she writes, "The rays of infinite Truth, when gathered into the focus of ideas, bring light instantaneously, whereas a thousand years of human doctrines, hypotheses, and vague conjectures emit no such effulgence."

The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, by perceiving God's and therefore Spirit's allness, perceived also logically and scientifically the nothingness of matter. By setting forth her discovery in its scientific application to every problem which besets mankind, she showed the false premise and conclusion of those "human doctrines, hypotheses, and vague conjectures" with which every phase of religious, medical, political, and intellectual teaching has been weakened and undermined. In this focus of ideas, whence all light radiates, there is perceived complete and perfect co-ordination and adjustment of each to all; the harmonious relationship of every idea in the universal plan is seen outlined, illumined, governed by divine Principle.

The individual may not appear to himself to be embarking upon any important or exciting voyage of discovery, to be traveling over hitherto unexplored lands, or sailing upon hitherto uncharted seas. Indeed, his way may appear to be anything but thrilling and eventful. Nevertheless, every day there are discoveries of enormous and far-reaching significance to be made; every day there are opportunities of the greatest magnitude, bringing him, as the result of vigilance, observation, and communion, ever more and more within that divine focus which means instantaneous light. If he permits himself to ignore them and to remain weighted with the burden of scholasticism, impressed and confused by the doctrines and negative theories which throw shadows and obstructions along his path, then his vision will continue to be dim, his traveling dangerous and experimental, the results of his labors unrewarding.

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