Article May 22, 1920 Issue

Right Thinking

FLORENCE C. SAVAGE

Christian Science teaches man to recognize conditions as states of thought. In Psalms we read, "He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions." A word is an expression of thought, the means whereby an idea is made known or recognized in consciousness. Then the word of God which came with healing was a manifestation of the active divine Mind, bringing the blessing which is always proceeding from the abundance of infinite Love. Christian Science also teaches that man reflects God. Since this is so, the only right activity of any man is the expression of spiritual understanding, which inevitably brings joy, comfort, and a sense of harmony to all who come within the focal distance of the right thinker.

Ruskin writes, "Every right action and true thought sets the seal of its beauty on person and face." This is readily admitted to be true, for how often we judge rightly of a person's admirable mental qualities by the countenance, the refined bearing, the calm and confident poise which is the heritage of those who dwell in "the secret place of the most High," the consciousness of good. Is it not just as true that the reverse of right thinking,—namely, a wrong conception of the universe including man, a false belief concerning the nature of God, investing Him with the desire and power to do evil as well as good,—would result in bringing forth undesirable and unlovely manifestations upon person and face? Would not this easily account for inharmonious conditions of mind and body and would not the remedy consist in an exactly opposite method of thinking?

Mrs. Eddy has given the cure for human ills and the manner of release from bondage to sin and sickness in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 341) where she says, "First purify thought, then put thought into words, and words into deeds; and after much slipping and clambering, you will go up the scale of Science to the second rule, and be made ruler over many things."

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