Uninterrupted Continuity of Good ANNA E. HERZOG From the May 1, 1937 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel 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 mans 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 Fathers 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. The practical instruction which Jesus gave as to how to bring constant good into experience is concisely expressed in his statement, If ye continue in my word, ... ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. To continue, a dictionary tells us, is to remain without interruption. To obey Jesus teaching without interruption brings into ones thought and experience the truth, which of its own power expels evil, prevents ones thought from lapsing into error, and reveals the real man safely held in one eternal round of harmonious being. Why does good ever appear to be interrupted in our experience? Because, in belief, we allow scientific, spiritual activity or true witnessing to be interrupted in our consciousness. And that comes about through our permitting the supposition of a power other than God to enter our thinking. This supposititious power influences, blinds, and mesmerizes us until we are confused and filled with thoughts of fear, sickness, lack of love—materiality. The so-called power of evil, or animal magnetism, its activity, its aggressive suggestions, its directed phases, and its malpractice, all can be resisted and rendered powerless to influence, delude, or harm, by a clear realization of their nothingness. And they are nothing, because of the uninterrupted continuance of God, of His love, His law, and His unfailing protection. Evil pretends to have power, development, tenacity, and continuity. But these are in reality qualities of Truth, not error; of good, not evil. Real health is tenacious, prosperity is persistent, progress is perpetual, for good alone endures. Knowing that God, Principle, is the only Lawgiver, we see that error is without law, thus without power of enforcement, intelligence with which to develop, or ability with which to persist. This is a helpful thing to know of any phase of evil. Oftentimes, one is not especially disturbed by the condition of today, but afraid of what may develop tomorrow. With joy and fearlessness let us realize that the evil which actually has no being or intelligence today cannot be real and progressing tomorrow. Thus we can deny every phase of error and its every claim of development and perpetuity. The denying of error is a necessary step in efficacious treatments. Nevertheless, it is the realization of the truth, which is itself a denial of error, that does the healing. We read, we study, in order to get realization. It is not the study, but the realizing of the truth which the study reveals, that actually brings good and healing into human experience. And after a healing let us know that that which was never true does not leave behind it any defect. That which was always nonexistent does not need to be recovered from. Strength, in reality, was never lost, thus never needs to be regained. Because continuity is a quality of health and uninterruptedness a characteristic of harmony, a period of convalescence is unnecessary; for in spiritual being man has never lapsed from perfection. The manifestation of life and plenty in the real man is uninterrupted by the mesmerism of sickness, death, hard times, governmental upheavals, failing crops or business. His advancement and unfoldment are unimpeded by stagnation or reversal. His purity is uninterrupted by materiality; his intelligence is uninterrupted by stupidity and doubt, and his confidence is uninterrupted by fear or timidity. No hate, willfulness, selfishness, or other sin can halt the eternal continuity of mans consciousness of good and his character as the holy child of God. Let us know that, and act accordingly. Opportunity is where God is; thus never past, never separate from Him, and never out of our grasp. Always present, constantly renewed, and ever available, the opportunity to be well and happy and good simply awaits our recognition and utilization. Dread of what the future may hold for nation or world, fear of old age and insecurity, are errors which a realization of goods perpetuity dispels. As we dwell increasingly in the consciousness of Gods omnipotence, evil is seen as a transitory dream and good as a permanent fact. Then the future is faced with confidence and expectancy, and thought is eventually lifted into scientific realization of the eternal actualities of being. To reach the heavenly consciousness we must learn to know God as revealed in Christian Science, and to prove our understanding in our lives. We must refuse to let suggestions of mental laziness, unkindness, apathy, or discouragement occupy our thought, slow down our effort, block our way, and so hinder our undeviating march Spiritward. Two Scientists, motoring in what was to them a foreign country, found that whenever they asked the way the direction given was, Straight on! No matter what the road appeared to be doing the reply was always the same. It became so impressive to these two students that they adopted it as a mental direction, a spiritual admonition. The Christian Scientist is making a mental journey, he is traveling spiritually, he is progressively finding his way to health, harmony, heaven, through right thinking; and his way leads straight on out of materiality into Spirit, out of ignorance into divine wisdom. It leads straight on out of matter into Mind, out of darkness into day, out of unreality into reality, out of belief in intermittent harmony into realization of the eternally uninterrupted continuity of good!
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