Article May 19, 1945 Issue

Ability

RALPH W. CESSNA

"A knowledge of the Science of being," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 128 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "develops the latent abilities and possibilities of man." Is it not encouraging to know that ability to accomplish whatever is needful and right comes not from brain, nor is it limited to experience, education, or other human sources, but stems directly from God alone? If it were otherwise, our capacity for right activity would be limited, circumscribed by finite conditions, by mortal beliefs; we should be slaves of human environment and opportunity.

Certainly we go about our human affairs endeavoring to express more wisdom, more talent, more efficiency, making use of every agency which promises aid in honest, helpful achievement. Yet it is true that any evidence of proficiency, craftsmanship, facility, or competence can be only a result of the reflection of divine Mind, God, not something manufactured, developed, and unequally distributed outside the source of all being.

God does not endow any one of His ideas with more or less ability than another. The individual expressing the most skill is he who, recognizing his true self as an idea of God accepts his relationship to God, divine Principle.

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