Article June 27, 1903 Issue

The Lesson of Obedience

JACK MULOCK JACKSON.

As one who has been greatly helped lately by learning the lesson of obedience in Christian Science I would like to relate somewhat of my experience, in the hope that it may aid others even as I have been aided. It is often said that fear and worry are responsible for much of our trouble, and failure to come out of discordant conditions. So they are, but they are not the original cause.

The primary cause as I have learned it, is disobedience, the consciousness of being disobedient to our highest knowledge of Truth, right, and spiritual law causes fear. No two persons can be judged by the same standard, as to what they are expressing in their lives, therefore let none of us fail to pursue a certain line of duty simply because we say our neighbor is not doing so. What may be a progressive condition for our neighbor, may be only marking time for us. We must go forward.

Many of us have said, figuratively, perhaps literally, "Yes, Christian Science is a grand truth, and I believe in it, but I cannot (or will not) do such and such a thing" or "give up such and such a thing," reserving to ourselves some particular specific course or pursuit which we know to be unscientific, but which we decline to abandon. Such has been my own attitude for years, but having seen the error in its true light, I should like to warn others.

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