Editorial September 16, 1950 Issue

"NATURES PARTICULARLY DEFINED"

Helen Wood Bauman

Human character may seem to be inconsistent and unpredictable, but this is not true of the nature of man, God's likeness. His character is outlined by his Maker, whose expression he is. Christian Science declares that the ideas of the one Mind, God, reflect the divine character, but that each idea does so in an individual way. It is this particularity of nature and activity that constitutes individuality and gives divine ideas distinctiveness and variety. This was revealed to Mary Baker Eddy, and she recorded it in these words in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 507) "Spirit names and blesses all. Without natures particularly defined, objects and subjects would be obscure, and creation would be full of nameless offspring, wanderers from the parent Mind, strangers in a tangled wilderness."

The work of divinity can never fail, and each idea's "particularly defined" nature is established in its immortal Principle. The fact that God outlines individual characters as pure, truthful, loving, and wise is of great moment to humanity, because it is demonstrable through Christian Science. Hereby one may bring to light the steadfastness of the nature with which he is in divine reality endowed and rule out unreal, evil impulses of thought, which would crowd their way into consciousness and make his nature seem dual and contradictory.

The inconsistencies of character that make an individual appear to be honest but irritable, kind but sensual, intelligent but cold, gentle but stupid, are destroyed by Science, which eliminates the basic fallacy through which undesirable qualities seem to operate the belief that man is a sinful mortal. Man is spiritually perfect, and his nature can never be adulterated by aggressive carnal traits. He is untouched by the seeming admixture of evil, just as the chemical integrity of water is uncontaminated by the refuse which seems to pollute it.

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