Article November 27, 1915 Issue

Our Right Place

WINIFRED E. COWARD

To the human sense, the question sometimes presents itself, Who am I that there should be a right place for me? Do I really exist, or am I but a myth masquerading as something real, only to be cut down without any resistance at some unknown moment in the future? Christian Science, however, enables us to prove that each of us has true being, and we can take one simple means of proving this. We all know that at some time in our lives we have done some good act, accomplished something good, and that we have seen the results. Then if we have expressed good at any moment, at that instant we were reflecting God, for good is God's humanly expressed reflection. A single expression of God through us reveals the fact that we could have many such experiences, that we must have real being in good, God. A recognition of this truth opens to us a vision of the fulness of our true living, when we shall express God every moment. On page 301 of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy tells us that spiritual man "reflects the divine, which constitutes the only real and eternal entity." She also says (p. 300) that "God is revealed only in that which reflects Life, Truth, Love."

How did we come to perform any act which expressed good? On examination we find that it was the direct outcome of a thought of good. No mortal sense could have conceived it. It is the divine Mind that flashes its light upon the awakened and responsive human sense.

True living is therefore the result or expression of God's thoughts. Divine Mind alone conceives those thoughts; no one knows them but Himself, before they are reflected through man. God is the source of all real supply in every imaginable sense; hence the folly of taking useless, anxious thought for the future. The divine Mind is perfect, the sole controller of its own thoughts, which fill the universe and accomplish the will of perfect Love in just the way it desires. Why then do we attempt to outline even for the next moment? We could not fashion it in such perfect form as God, the divine Mind, does. It is only mortal mind that outlines materially in its attempt to imitate or usurp the prerogative of divinity.

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