Editorial February 5, 1910 Issue

THE RIGHT ATTITUDE

Annie M. Knott

In a recent Lesson-Sermon there was a very telling instance of the relation between certain truths. The familiar and oft-quoted statement, that God is "of purer eyes than to behold evil," was immediately followed by this text from Psalms: "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me." If any one is at all in doubt as to the practical value of Christian Science in overcoming the trials and difficulties of human experience, he can always prove this for himself by clearing his own thought of all belief in evil. We may not be able to prove that God does not know evil, but if we take on trust the prophet's words, that God is of purer eyes than to behold it, and from this basis strive to rid our own consciousness of the belief that evil has reality, place, or power, we shall be amazed at the results attained in the overcoming of sin and disease.

As the belief in evil vanishes, the light of Truth pours in, and the mental illumination which follows shows that the divine Life is indeed "the light of men." It gives health for disease, joy for sorrow, strength for weakness, and purity for defilement. It only remains for each individual to conform to the divine requirement, to maintain continually the right mental attitude, in order to become a recipient of the blessings which all desire. It cannot be otherwise if the promises of the Bible count for anything, and if our hopes are not all delusions.

Would not every sincere seeker after Truth prefer to think that he himself was in the wrong (with a chance of being set right), than to believe that God either cared not to help him or could not do so? Unhappily too many do think this, and so wrong God and themselves. They believe that the Almighty has instituted a material order with entailed pains and penalties, and, as an eminent writer has said, calmly looks down from a height above, "seeing it go." It is not likely that any professed Christian would challenge the Christian Science concept of God as omnipresent Love and wisdom; but to stand by this concept, live by it, through the strain and stress of mortal experience, is the all-important thing.

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