Editorial June 2, 1945 Issue

"Thou shalt be a blessing"

Margaret Morrison

"And thou shalt be a blessing." This is one of the promises made of Abram when the command came to him from the Lord to leave his own country and kindred, and his father's house, and to go unto a land that was as yet unknown, but that would be shown to him. This promise is waiting to be fulfilled in each individual consciousness as one turns away from matter to Mind, from a false sense of country and kindred as personal and material to the infinite realm of the realities of Spirit, where alone true kindred, true blessedness and blessing are to be found. There Spirit blesses man and makes man a blessing. On page 329 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy, its author, has said, "If men understood their real spiritual source to be all blessedness, they would struggle for recourse to the spiritual and be at peace."

Mortal mind, remaining in its own country of false concepts, not perceiving the vital points of divine metaphysics, often harms when it would help, injures when it would bless. Again, on page 263 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy says: "Carnal beliefs defraud us. They make man an involuntary hypocrite,—producing evil when he would create good, forming deformity when he would outline grace and beauty, injuring those whom he would bless."

There is no mistake to be made then. It is in Spirit only that blessing is found, and through the understanding and accepting of one's true, spiritual selfhood that one will experience blessing and be a blessing. What joy there is in that consciousness whose presence blesses all who enter it. Christ Jesus was the great exemplar of this. We read in one of our hymns (Hymnal, No. 388):

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