Editorial March 27, 1943 Issue

Loss Impossible in Science

Paul Stark Seeley

Loss is one of the commonest arguments of evil which beset mortals. To material sense everything that mortals have is subject to loss—health, happiness, courage, ideals, a good name, place, possessions, sight, hearing, friends, relatives, and even life itself. Loss is written large across the sky of mortal experience. Like every phase of evil, this godless lie finds its destroyer in Christian Science.

What we call loss is predicated on the belief that negative, ignorant forces can, in various ways, subtract, or take away from, an individual what is normal to his completeness, causing him to lack something and be incomplete. Christian Science teaches that loss is as untrue as are sin and disease. God, all-knowing Mind, does not cause, permit, or tolerate it. Everything that God makes is superior to loss, and forever exists in Him, unlosable as ideas are unlosable to Mind, for all that is, is Mind and its ideas. Thereof, and therein, is no loss.

The Master stated the spiritual fact thus: "This is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day." Of all that God, Love, is eternally giving to constitute the completeness of His image, man, nothing can be subtracted, taken away, or lost. The forces of God work spontaneously to preserve, protect, perpetuate all that belongs to man and the divine order. They exclude and preclude any godless forces that would disintegrate, separate, deplete, or produce loss. Only a mistaken sense of life and creation can actually be lost. All that the basic error, mortal mind, claims to evolve is, sooner or later, subject to loss, for it is inherently mortal, passing, losable. All that God makes is immune from loss, for it is forever His immortal expression. As Mrs. Eddy says, "Nothing is lost that God gives" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 111).

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