Article July 12, 1930 Issue

True Experience

CAROLINE V. LANGWORTHY

JUDGING from the evidence before the material senses, it may seem as though suffering and evil greatly overbalance the good in human experience. Even those instructed in Christian Science are sometimes given to murmur at what they consider the hardness of their lot.

For a certain Christian Scientist who had been tempted to believe that her lot was very hard, and that she was experiencing more than her share of tribulation, a great light broke with the perception that since man is spiritual his experience must be of like nature, for the spiritual, real man can experience only things of spiritual origin and nature, and therefore expressive of eternal good. Of great comfort to her was this realization, for it showed her the unreality and untruth of what she had been accepting as her grievous experience. It was then quickly and joyfully discerned that as God's child she was always experiencing pure, spiritual good, wherein there is no commingling with evil. It was further discerned that what had been regarded as her sorrowful experience was but a phase of the Adam-dream, concerning which our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, states (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 109), "All the way mortals are experiencing the Adam dream of mind in matter, the dream which is mortal and God-condemned and which is not the spiritual fact of being."

Thanks to the revelation of divine Science, we know that immortal man, the image and likeness of God, is conscious of something quite apart and entirely different from the Adam-dream of mortals. In reality, he is experiencing the scientific, eternal, satisfying facts of being. Here are no earthly woes, sufferings, discords, or hardships of any kind. Thus it is that the real man's experience is perpetually that of unlimited, inexhaustible spiritual good. In other words, spiritually good experiences are his continual and eternal heritage, and they include health, harmony, activity, freedom, perfection, infinite progression, inspiration, pure spirituality, contentment, everlasting joy, and eternal life.

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