Article June 2, 1917 Issue

"Every thought"

CAROLINE A. BALY

As a language is not mastered until the student learns to think in that language, so it becomes evident to the student of Christian Science that in order to be able to demonstrate Truth he must have good in all his thoughts; he must think spiritually in working faithfully up to this Christ-standard. He thus has the remedy for every ill always at hand, and when the ideal in this line becomes the rule rather than the exception, instantaneous healing will be usual. St. Paul's admonition about "bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ" should often be pondered by Christian Scientists.

Every faithful follower of Mrs. Eddy longs to demonstrate the great truth that Mind is the only medicine which heals,—not only sickness but sin and death; consequently the admonition of our Leader on page 261 of Science and Health to "hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true," becomes an imperative necessity. Through the buoyant, persistent spiritualization of thought he recognizes that to reach even a distant view of the promised "greater works" he needs must have God in all his thoughts, for every act, right or wrong, is but the unfoldment of a thought. How impossible this is from a mortal standpoint at once becomes apparent, if not appalling, and it is right here that the wily serpent lulls to sleep the unwary.

Christian Science has, however, exposed the serpentine ways of mortal mind, and so the armored student is instant with the command, "Get thee hence." Let the serpent do his worst, the student who understands that good is omnipotent knows also that a lie vanishes before the light of Truth, and Truth is omnipresent. The paramount importance of consecrated thinking cannot be too insistently urged upon one's self when we recall that the statement, "Behold, it was very good," was spoken of a world not made with hands. Creation is therefore the ever operative manifestation of Mind, and man is the reflection of that one Mind. In unison with this comes our Leader's inspiring words on page 199 of Science and Health: "The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible." Surely no devotion could be more honestly expended than in our desire to emulate the psalmist and have God in all our thoughts. To acknowledge God in all our ways becomes in the light of Christian Science a present possibility rather than a far away, indefinite obligation, and as we put that devotion into practice it means the averment that all volition, every activity, is the reflection of omnipotence, the full realization, after the manner of Christ Jesus, that "I can of mine own self do nothing."

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