Editorial May 22, 1943 Issue

Spiritual versus Personal Sense

Evelyn F. Heywood

The theory that humanity is inevitably at the mercy of pain and suffering, loss and failure, is contrary to the teaching of Christ Jesus, and it is wholly refuted in Christian Science. Personal sense, acting from the basis of belief in matter, is solely responsible for all disabilities from which mortals suffer, and the remedy is available. On page 273 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," Mary Baker Eddy writes, "The ultimatum of life here and hereafter is utterly apart from a material or personal sense of pleasure, pain, joy, sorrow, life, and death." In these words it is clearly set forth that what applies to the future applies no less to the now. In human conjecture and mortal planning the ultimate is obscure; but in spiritual knowing, the divine power and presence are here, offsetting all material sense of existence, all belief in evil as real.

The expert builder, the accomplished musician, the experienced writer, has won success by wise and careful selection. His achievement is due to his alertness and his judgment. Likewise the true metaphysician. He selects thoughts that are pure and honest, loyal to divine Principle, merciful and just towards his fellow man. He is awake to the arguments of personal sense, pride and self-pity, ambition and envy, knowing that these lead to an ever-widening separation between him and God. Thus in confidence and security he finds himself day by day nearer to his divine ideal—the ultimatum of life.

In every human experience, the choice must be made whether it is to be material personal sense or spiritual sense which animates one; whether it is to be the acceptance, even partially, of the methods and the motives which constitute mortality, involving limitation, discord, failure; or whether, standing unequivocally with Principle, men will select only qualities of Mind for the work they have to do.

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