Article April 15, 1922 Issue

Sincerity

WILLARD M. GRIMES

The student of Christian Science who desires to demonstrate its teachings through actual healing and regenerative work will do well to bear in mind at all times the statement of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 462): "Self-denial, sincerity, Christianity, and persistence alone win the prize." Of these cardinal requirements, which our Leader has declared to be necessary for success, that of sincerity seems quite fundamental; for without it none of the others would ring true. If the student is not sincere in his desire to help mankind, his attempts at self-denial and Christianity will represent only pretense and hypocrisy, and his persistence will consist of little more than willful determination to advance himself.

Without sincerity our prayers become "vain repetitions," with no uplifting power. The ineffectiveness of such prayer is described by Shakespeare in the despairing cry of the king in "Hamlet":—

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