Article July 10, 1909 Issue

OUR THINKING

EBBA V. KREBS.

I am indeed thankful to our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for having impressed upon us the necessity of right thinking. Today I wonder that there was ever a time when we believed we could reach heaven, harmony, before we gave up our old ways of careless thinking.

At one time we really believed we were doing the most we could do if we kept our erroneous thoughts to ourselves. To guard our talk was wise, but had we guarded our thoughts first, there would be no necessity for guarding our speech; and that would have been true wisdom. There is an old saying, "Thoughts are free of duty;" and we believed it, judging from the way we carried over the border line of what should be our sacred thought-land all kinds of thoughts, good and bad alike,—thoughts of criticism, jealousy, hate, envy, pride, and many others. Now, in Christian Science, we realize what awfully high duty we have paid and continue to pay for such thoughts. We pay it sometimes in sickness, in sorrow, in poverty, or death.

We are too apt to lull ourselves to sleep in thinking that there is plenty of time in which to try to be good. One says, "For a while yet I will think and talk as I please, criticize and make fun of my neighbor. I am doing it all good-naturedly. It will not hurt him, and it is such fun to have a good laugh at another's expense." It is true that there is no scarcity of time; we have all the time there is to improve in, but can we afford to waste it? Can we afford, for humanity's sake, for our loved ones' sake, for our own sake, to lengthen the days of suffering on this earth?

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