Article July 12, 1919 Issue

"What we most need"

ALICE S. BROWN

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 4) Mrs. Eddy says, "What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds." Our growth in the understanding of God leads to practical results, for such understanding blesses all who come in contact with it. A realization of the presence of God, wherever we are placed, which acknowledges God as the only power, controlling and governing thought and expression in our association with all we meet, establishes trust in the divine power to bring out harmony. When error attempts to make itself heard, let us express patience in our work and meekness in our endeavor to bring out a higher sense of God, Love, in every action, with "good deeds" following. This is what those who name themselves Christian Scientists are called upon to express. This purification makes us continually advance in the understanding of God, and leads to higher results in demonstration. The Principle of Christian Science, which does not depend upon time, place, or thing, leads on to the true sense of man as God's child, capable of understanding and demonstrating the power of Love. In overcoming the various false claims that would prevent us from rising to a higher spiritual standpoint, let us realize the wonderful truth that man—God's man—is now living in the fullness of Love, with capacity to do the healing work for those who come desiring it.

Mrs. Eddy tells us in Science and Health (p. 4), "The habitual struggle to be always good is unceasing prayer." And the Bible admonishes us to "pray without ceasing." As one goes on with the purpose of continually manifesting good, reflecting constantly that Love which "passeth all understanding," the way becomes brighter and we are kept from the dark places of fear; Love surrounds us and blesses, and works through us. Then the truth of the statement, "Now are we the sons of God," makes itself felt and holds us in the presence of the one Mind, bringing out heaven, which is defined by Mrs. Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 587), as "harmony; the reign of Spirit; government by divine Principle; spirituality; bliss; the atmosphere of Soul."

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