Editorial January 1, 1944 Issue

Resolved: That We Use What We Know

Paul Stark Seeley

A correspondent tells of an increase in the local Christian Science Sunday School attendance so large that it has been difficult to secure the additional chairs needed. A caller from another section reports a substantial increase there in Sunday school enrollment during the past year.

But now and then one hears that a Sunday school is not prospering as it should, or that a Reading Room is not accomplishing all that can be rightfully expected of it, or that attendance at the services of some church is falling off. We Christian Scientists sometimes talk too much and do too little in such circumstances. We have the wherewithal to meet and master such conditions, but too often we do not use what we know of God, His power and law, to dissipate the ignorant forces that would claim to retard, limit, and delay the divine purpose to heal and spiritualize mankind through the God-sanctioned activities of our movement.

When we stop to consider, we know that whatever spiritual progress we have made individually has resulted from overcoming, through understanding prayer, the lies of evil suggestion with the error-destroying ideas of Truth. If confronted with pain, sin, lack, ill will, the alert Christian Scientist immediately turns to the true idea of God, man, law, and substance. By realizing what is spiritually true in regard to man's health, holiness, and substance as God's beloved son, he overcomes the particular lie. But if error argues that there is a wrong condition in the church, we are often slower to array against it the spiritual truths provided of God to annihilate it. If error says it is easier to apply Science to one's personal needs than to the church's collective activity, that is false. There is no phase of error's lie for which omniscient Mind does not provide the answer in the form of potent spiritual ideas, fully understandable by man, for whom and through whom they are expressed. Here is a working example.

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