Editorial June 11, 1949 Issue

DIVINE RECOGNITION

Robert Ellis Key

In the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. vii), "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings." A possible correlative to this statement is to be found in Proverbs (3:5, 6): "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."

To lean on "the sustaining infinite" is to incline our thought toward the realities of Spirit, to turn as naturally to God as a flower turns to the light. It means to rely not upon material evidence, but upon the presence, power, and evidence of Soul. It means the awareness of heaven, or harmony, as expressed in our everyday affairs.

Our present recognition of pure, friendly humanhood is a foretaste of heaven. Mrs. Eddy says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 100), "Pure humanity, friendship, home, the interchange of love, bring to earth a foretaste of heaven." Surely this foretaste of heaven is not too transcendental. We are not required to throw off the good we know humanly in order to attain a heaven aloof and mystical. We begin to enter heaven here and now, just where we are.

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