Editorial October 22, 1955 Issue

UNINTERRUPTED PROGRESS

Robert Ellis Key

Uninterrupted spiritual progress invariably accompanies the prayerful study and practice of Christian Science. The evidence of the carnal, or mortal, mind is false and erroneous, and its testimony is reversed by Science, which reveals the facts of spiritual existence. Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 120), "Science reverses the false testimony of the physical senses, and by this reversal mortals arrive at the fundamental facts of being."

We can readily see that evil is the opposite of good, weakness the opposite of strength, hatred the reverse of love, and so on ad infinitum. Mortal mind, or the so-called mind of mortals, believes in what is termed a law of reaction, namely that for every action there is a reaction. If the student of Christian Science does not keep a close watch on this deceptive belief, he may come under it. There is in truth, however, no law of reversal or reaction. There never was such a law, and there never will be one. The nature of mortal mind is temporal. Its assumed existence depends upon a belief that mortals cannot break through the bounds of finiteness. Its edict is advance and recede, go forward and come back. Mortal mind keeps its victim tied to mortality, and in order to do so it must claim to have a law of reversal which can keep one from demonstrating uninterrupted progress.

The nature of man is not mortal but immortal. As an immortal, the reflection of God, man is under the law of unlimited and uninterrupted progress. Man is not bounded by mortality, nor can he come under any law of reversal or reaction. The business executive is well aware of the need to protect his business from the destructive belief of recession. Many business executives work up a business by honesty, industry, and good will, and consider themselves safe because of their exercise of these good qualities. It is not enough, however, to run a business on lines of human honesty alone. It needs protection against the claims of reversal and reaction which disrupt many projects not wholly reflecting divine law.

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