Article December 13, 1913 Issue

Value of Right Thinking

ROBERT W. SAGE

It is obvious to any observer that successful endeavor must necessarily have as its mainspring normal mentality, and it therefore behooves those who seek success to watch their thought-processes and to know that as surely as they lapse into disorderly thinking so surely will this eventually be manifested in a lack of harmony in their business affairs.

There is no lack of advice supplied from time to time along these lines, but mankind is constantly appealing for the wherewithal to profit by this advice. A man finds his efforts to think right beset with what seem to be insurmountable difficulties, and like the apostle of old he exclaims, "For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I." Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has exposed the fallacy of seeking the rule of right thinking and therefore of right living, among the mutable and ever-changing phenomena of the material world. She shows very plainly that it is impossible to gain permanent results by building upon false foundations. In conjunction with this she exposes the fallacy of depending for guidance upon the material sense which she names mortal mind.

No one ever worked more intelligently and brought out more certain results than Jesus of Nazareth. In the face of the seemingly impossible he manifested an ability to furnish supplies in the wilderness of human belief for the needs of mankind, by constantly referring to the Principle of life which was not to be found in matter or among the evidences of the material senses. He said, "I can of mine own self do nothing," and on another occasion he explained, "I have not spoken of myself; but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak." It was the understanding of divine Principle which he came to give to the world that others also might work the works he exemplified.

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