Article July 31, 1920 Issue

True Speaking

FOLLETTE BROTHERTON

Paul in his first epistle to the Corinthians says, "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." The student of Christian Science could say: When I believed I was a child of matter I spoke a material language, I understood the material to be true, I thought in doubt and in fear. I spoke, I understood the material because I knew not the truth; but when I became a student of Christian Science I learned that matter is not real, I understood the spiritual to be true, and I learned to think in confidence and in Truth because I know that matter is unreal and that the spiritual is real.

When one's thought has been awakened, ever so little, by Truth, to the realization that there is only the real and eternal and that what has through ignorance been believed to be real is only a belief, and a false one, it becomes necessary to speak the truth that one is learning, to see and to know that material speaking, material believing, material thinking are really nothing, and then to cast them out, and to speak, understand, and think the only language that is,—the language of Spirit; to put off the old and take on the new; to put away the material and rejoice in the spiritual.

It seems to be more universal to claim to think and to understand the truth than to speak it; and the writer of the Proverbs says of a mortal, "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he." Surely that which is not thought is not spoken, and that which is really understood speaks of itself. It is futile to claim to think the truth unless the truth is spoken. It can be observed that with some much more time is spent, generally speaking, in talking about mortal mind beliefs and claims, in talking about "thinking the truth," than in speaking that which is true.

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