Editorial November 29, 1982 Issue

Dominion over discouragement

CAROLYN B. SWAN

We are greater than discouragement. We certainly needn't let what amounts to a puny lie prostrate our progress. The understanding of our true identity as the real man, the image of God, good—the spiritual idea of the one divine Mind—gives us immunity from discouragement; superiority, in fact, over all the claims of a supposititious mind apart from God. In reality, we cannot be rendered inexpressive of the perfection God has created us to manifest. Man's God-given dominion to unfold infinitely can never be withdrawn. It cannot be stopped even by our own apathetic surrender to false claims.

The virulent influence of discouragement is powerless to invade the thought or enfeeble the experience of those who resist it with spiritually right identification of themselves and others, made practical in the demonstration of Spirit's, good's, omnipotence and matter's, evil's, impotence. If we have unwittingly placed discouragement ahead of our God-demanded Christian practice, we have a potent antidote. In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy writes: "If you believe in and practise wrong knowingly, you can at once change your course and do right. Matter can make no opposition to right endeavors against sin or sickness, for matter is inert, mindless."^{Science and Health, p. 253.}

Spiritually right thinking and doing are under the protection of a higher law than the mortal so-called law of "the survival of the fittest." God's law of eternal life for whatever is good assures the doom of discouragement and the perpetuity of all good work and good workers.

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