Article July 26, 1913 Issue

"ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH."

W. PETCH.

We are always rewarded according to our desire. Jesus said, "According to your faith be it unto you," and the blind received sight, the perception of infinite and present possibilities. Divine Love is ever present, and is reigning forever within the real man; therefore true desire is of the heart, independent of outward things. Speaking for true vision, Jesus said, "Having eyes, see ye not?" He taught that the "kingdom of heaven," true happiness, is within man. If our desire is spiritual, the satisfaction thereof is sure.

Jesus had no other desire than to glorify God, and today Christian Science is the impersonal, spiritual desire of all nations, the Science that makes plain the allness of Spirit, and of Spirit's perfect and only ideal, man. Hence, every right desire has its place in Christian Science, while matter, or error, has no place there at all. The real man, born of Spirit, can have no will or desire apart from the glory of God; and this glory, the radiance of the divine Life, is that of universal joy and spiritual light. Christ Jesus said, "Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee."

If a so-called Christian Scientist were to treat his patient as one desirous of merely material things, he would undoubtedly be trying to meet error with error, while the Scientist who recognizes and fosters the spiritual hunger and thirst for God, which is the only real desire the patient can have, is thereby making practical and plain the Scriptural word: "Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee;" for the Scientist who knows that there is no other attraction than that of infinite Spirit, thus uplifts or weds the patient's desire to its conscious at-one-ment with all-satisfying Spirit. Jesus said: "I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me." All men are drawn to God. Many are not seemingly conscious of this ceaseless attraction to something above the ideals of material sense, and others may misinterpret its meaning; but the Christian Scientist, to whom God is All and in all, cannot know erroneous thought or desire as reality, and the opposite knowing of Truth alone destroys the false sense of the patient. This is beautifully expressed in the calling of Samuel, who "did not yet know the Lord," but "Eli perceived that the Lord had called the child."

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