Editorial April 12, 1947 Issue

"My Father...honoureth me"

Paul Stark Seeley

Most of us rightly desire to be honored and respected by our fellows. Some mortals make studied efforts to gain favor and distinction in society, politics, profession, and business, too often by questionable means. Rivalry, jealousy, competition, injustice, and ill will result. Like all things mortal, personal glory and honor are transitory and far from truly satisfying. They may elude us today, appear tomorrow, and after a brief period fade away. Says Mary Baker Eddy, "It is difficult to say which may be most mischievous to the human heart, the praise or the dispraise of men" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 245).

Christian Science reveals that true sense of honor which the impartial Father of all bestows on each and every individual, regardless of what the material mind may say is his human status. It is the honor which the one God bestows on man by making him His son, or expression. Here is the highest conceivable honor, the honor of being God's representative to evidence forth deific intelligence in thought and life. Thus honored by God, every individual is inescapably honored by his fellow man. Principle so decrees. Every idea of God wholeheartedly honors God, and in so doing honors without qualification all of His ideas who are in Him.

The Psalmist, whose words Paul quotes with approval, says of man, "Thou...hast crowned him with glory and honour" (Ps. 8:5). Now what God has done for man He does not undo, nor does He permit any would-be evil power to undo it. "Whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever:... nothing can be...taken from it" (Eccl. 3:14). So the spiritual fact is that the one and only real selfhood of you and me is being continuously honored by God as His own witness or manifestation.

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