Article May 1, 1937 Issue

Uninterrupted Continuity of Good

ANNA E. HERZOG

What divine Mind knows for its idea, what our heavenly Father knows for His child, is the uninterrupted continuity of good. Good is eternally unfolding in boundless measure, but how little men realize this! When they are enjoying their best concepts of health and prosperity, error is constantly suggesting that good will not continue; and when they are facing trouble, error suggests that the trouble will never cease.

Scientifically understood, good is constant; only beliefs about it come and go. Good is reality; only unreality varies and changes. Abundance and health are eternal; only mistaken concepts of them are limited and lacking. The real man's harmony is not interrupted by accident, suspended by sorrow, interfered with by disappointment, or reversed by failure. Always beyond and above the chaos and calamity which seem real to human sense, stands the serene, eternal harmony of real being.

Mrs. Eddy says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 79), "Immortal man is the eternal idea of Truth, that cannot lapse into a mortal belief or error concerning himself and his origin;" and (ibid., p. 77), "This is the Father's great Love that He hath bestowed upon us, and it holds man in endless Life and one eternal round of harmonious being." Does this seem difficult to accept? Nevertheless, it is true, and must be mentally held to if we would make it humanly apparent in our experience.

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