Article October 29, 1910 Issue

OUR RIGHT PLACE

GENEVA MARY CLIPPINGER.

THE great desire and business of the Christian Scientist is to know God. As progress in any science is founded upon understanding, or demonstrable knowledge, of that science, so progress to the Christian Scientist is founded upon knowledge of God, demonstrated as scientific Christianity. The world has always thought of a Christian as one who, like the Master, "went about doing good."

This concept of Christian activity has been broadened and deepened in our day by the light which has been thrown upon Jesus' life through Christian Science, whereby we have seen that the true Christian's good deeds must include the healing of all manner of disease and discord. Jesus' days were occupied largely with healing, and he was the master Christian. He showed the way in which his followers should live and work; consequently, to a Christian the chief concern should be to obey Christ Jesus' commands: "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give." This is therefore the Christian Scientist's greatest desire, greatest joy, and greatest reward, namely, to grow in the knowledge of God, and they completely fulfil the Master's commands.

The ability to heal does not require any especial church position, other than to be right with God, and where this ability to heal spiritually unfolds in one's thought, it crowds out any desire for human place or power. For if we are working honestly and rightly to be about our Father's business, we shall be always in our right place, and we shall never be used by the argument that we should like to be in this or that position of prominence. We shall meet such an argument by the certain consciousness that God has a good usefulness for every idea of His creating, and that one idea cannot possibly do another's work; that He alone can say what is our usefulness; and He alone can prepare us for and give to us our right activity.

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