Article November 13, 1902 Issue

Exactness

HENRY C. LAWRENCE.

I HAVE been thinking lately about my work in Christian Science, and have been wondering what I should say if the question were asked, What is the most important thing in your work?

There are many things of much account in the work of a Christian Scientist. Detail must be carried out with the utmost care. First and foremost his own thought must be kept clear and in the direct line of Science, deviation from which our text-book states is fatal to our progress. The smallest erroneous thought must be given proper attention, for if put aside as insignificant and unworthy our time, it will some day return to claim more of us. If not at first corrected and destroyed by Truth it will later on cost us more.

Think for a moment of the little things an architect must take into consideration in planning a large building, and imagine the result if these were neglected. Now in what sense and how far are we architects, and what sort of a building are we planning? We each have the building of character to construct, and success or failure depends upon our wise choice of each thought which helps to make it, or our foolish acceptance of every random idea which presents itself. Our beginning or foundation must be laid in the true Christ character which the Master presented to us. This plan must be followed with precision in erecting the superstructure, so that the finished work may agree in each particular with the model. But unlike the material building, this construction or development is the growth of years. It is progress out of the seen into the unseen, out of the mortal concept into immortal Truth. Greater care, closer application is required of us in our progress in Christian Science than in anything else, and without this we do not progress, even though we think we do.

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