Article April 25, 1903 Issue

Reliance on God

Alice Jennings

Macon (Ga.) Telegraph

One advances in Christian Science by living "as seeing Him who is invisible," and by seeking right as the only means to good. Human policy, prestige, and place are not stepping-stones to divine honors, and worldly honors derived from self-seeking belong not to immortality and the heavenly order. Man's true glory is in the triumph of Soul; it is the outgrowth of exalted Christian character, which necessarily expresses itself in such usefulness to humanity as promotes health, happiness, and general well-being. Not through ambition, but through obedience to divine Mind and helpful love and esteem for others' virtues, does one rise to upper realms of thought and action.

It is impossible for man to lose his place in God, his individual relationship to immutable Good. Growth in life's. harmonies is attended by retirement from the chief seats, rulership, and phenomena of corporeal observation to prayer and the abiding in the secret place of the Most High. Spiritual elevation or promotion is acquired by laying up treasures in heaven, the treasures of well-used opportunities, of ministration to want and woe, of the power of goodness to aid mercy and justice, of tender regard for the needs and right of others. As we thus build for heaven, we are journeying to the New Jerusalem, and we have the company of all who understand that Christianity has a divine Principle by which we enter into Life, Love, and Truth.

Good motives are understood by the good-hearted. If these are not understood by some, one way to correct misapprehension is by taking new courage and in meekness doing more good. God watches over those who live to do good. He who knows the sparrow's way is their defence. They fear not what the world can do. The shepherding, infinite Love, that "tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," protects and enfolds them tenderly. He binds up the broken-hearted, and he has said, "Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted."

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