Article December 25, 1943 Issue

"Yea, yea; Nay, nay"

PENELOPE EYSTER HARVEY

Christ Jesus ' simple and concise instruction in his Sermon on the Mount, "Let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil," challenges thought as to its meaning.

In the light of Christian Science do not these words indicate the wisdom of the Scriptures, declaring the oneness and allness of God, good, and the consequent nothingness of evil—declaring the positive and the negative—the fact and the fable?

Declaring the positive is like letting light shine through the window pane. It is not the pane that gives light, but the sun shining through it; it is not the human mind that declares the truth, for Mrs. Eddy definitely teaches that the human mind is not a factor in the demonstration of Christian Science, but the human mind, when cleansed of the "nays" of false belief, serves as a clearer transparency for Truth. It is the eternal oneness and allness of divine Mind, shining through the receptive human consciousness, which reveals man rejoicing in the wholeness of perfect being.

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