Article September 17, 1904 Issue

Example

J. A. B.

It is surely appropriate for us to acknowledge the good received through others which has aided the birth of the Christ-idea in our individual consciousness.

What is it in others that has influenced us most at the critical periods of our experience? What has turned us in the right direction? I have often tried to analyze what it was that influenced me most when I came to Christian Science, and I have concluded that it was the example I saw. Very little permanent good is accomplished by preaching or argument. How much good would the teachings of the New Testament bring to us were it not for the example of the Master? How much slower we should be to accept the truths of Christian Science if it could not be truly said that our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, lives up to her highest teachings.

Many of us can look back over our past lives and see that we have been won by example in many instances where preaching and argument would have defeated their own object. For this reason I am thankful for the example of a loving wife who let her light so shine that I was unconsciously, I think, led to a desire to know something about Christian Science. I am also thankful for the example of a patient teacher who, perhaps more than she is aware, has led me to an appreciation of what Christian Science is, and that by the example of her life and work even more than by the verbal instruction she gave me. Her example is still an inspiration to me and is a proof of her love and desire to accomplish the most good for others.

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