Article March 27, 1915 Issue

Every Hour

MARY A. NEWMAN

In studying the teachings of Christian Science, one of the first lessons unfolded to us is that of a new impulsion to activity, and this is clearly set forth in the following sentence from our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, where we read, "Good demands of man every hour, in which to work out the problem of being" (p. 261). In our previous way of thinking it seemed to some of us as though the demand came from evil, that the problems of human experience with their complex entanglements must be adjusted and arranged for by giving them a degree of reality. But this did not solve the question, nor did the way become clear to us, however loyally one might try to face the difficulties from the standpoint of religious education or some philosophy claiming to give a solution. We felt that things were wrong, but that somewhere surely there must be an answer to the heartfelt longing for light and guidance.

When the truth of Christian Science came to us, we saw that not a grim tyrant, not an overshadowing evil, is holding the government of the universe and man, or a God who permits evil or sends it to His children, but the infinite Father-Mother, Love. Then we began to get a glimpse of what our work is, in response to the demand of this Love: not resignation to an arbitrary will that we could not understand, but a childlike, faithful, earnest, trustful obedience to the demands of infinite Love.

The contrast between the true and the false way is graphically portrayed by our Leader's words where she says, "The looms of crime, hidden in the dark recesses of mortal thought, are every hour weaving webs more complicated and subtle."

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