Article December 2, 1916 Issue

Our Literature

EDWARD G. WRIGHT

Quite often we say to ourselves that if we could only remember everything we read what wonderful knowledge we would possess; but does it ever occur to us that perhaps we have been trying to remember the wrong things, or the nonessentials, instead of sifting the chaff of mortal, finite sense from the wheat of spiritual truth? Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p. 312), "How true it is that whatever is learned through material sense must be lost because such so-called knowledge is reversed by the spiritual facts of being in Science." Do we sometimes find ourselves trying to remember a particular sentence or word in order that we may be able to quote it at some future time, giving more attention to the words than to the thought which is contained in the article, and in this way missing the kernel which is underneath the husk? In other words, are we seeking life in matter when we ought to know that "it is the spirit that quickeneth," and that the mere letter "profiteth nothing"?

The seeker after truth in Christian Science would do well to apply the words of Paul to the reading of its literature, as well as to the practice of its teachings. "We look," he says, "not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." Keeping this thought in mind let us read, if possible, Christian Science literature with the sole purpose of obtaining the spiritual facts, for by gaining these facts we are acquiring a knowledge which cannot be reversed.

As we thus read we begin to realize and understand the wonderful truths which are being disclosed to us, truths which previously were hard for us to understand because their meaning seemed to be hidden. We thus advance spiritually, mentally, and physically, and begin to experience for ourselves the great truth of being,—that God is Spirit, and that man is His image and likeness.

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