Article May 22, 1909 Issue

SELF-EXAMINATION

HATTIE S. GALE

How can we at this period, as students of Christian Science, answer a few questions that must necessarily arise in the thoughts of all wide-awake, active, loyal workers in our beloved Cause? When I think of the wise moves that have been made by our dear Leader, in the giving up of our yearly gatherings and "greetings," I am impelled to write what has come to me many times, and now in a more searching manner than ever before; and I am asking myself questions like the following: Am I a Christian Scientist? Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health (p. 192), "We are not Christian Scientists until we leave all for Christ." How much am I giving up for our Cause and for all mankind? Would I study our Leader's works just as faithfully if no person knew how much or how little I did? Would I be just as loyal if our Leader did not know me? Would I attend all the church services if no person knew me? Would I take patients who could not pay just as readily as those who could? Am I actuated in my daily life-work by Principle, or personality? Am I judging my brother by the personal senses, or seeing him as reflecting the Father's image? Am I holding thoughts for all mankind that will purify and heal? Am I myself reflecting Love as taught through the understanding of Science and Health? Am I living the Golden Rule?

These and many other questions come to me so often that I am constrained to give expression to them, for we who are students of Christian Science have "enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death" (Science and Health, p. 450); and how shall we accomplish this work unless we reverse the evidence of the senses and see man as God sees him, keeping ever in thought the perfect model? We have had sufficient teaching, and we have our Leader's works and the example of her unselfish and untiring devotion to Christian Science and to the whole world. Let us therefore put down self and go and do likewise. Let us overcome personal likes and dislikes and put our understanding of the truth into practice, that our lives and our works may prove that we have something which the world can neither give nor take away.

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