Article May 13, 1922 Issue

Outgoing and Incoming

LILLIAN BARKER DURKEE

In these days of world-adjustment, when the fighting armies of the nations seem to have been replaced by an army of the unemployed; when the high cost of living has placed a weighty burden on the shoulders of many patient and willing workers; when so-called mortal mind, in a self-pitying, poverty-fearing voice, is frequently heard complaining that everything is going out and little or nothing coming in, it behooves all who are endeavoring to "stand porter at the door of thought," as Mrs. Eddy admonishes us to do in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 392), to be alert, and prepared to challenge suggestions of limitation that seek admittance to thought.

A careful analysis of the situation will reveal the fact that the reverse of mortal mind's declaration is true. It may be that currency has been going out from our purse, and little or none coming into it; but money is not substance; neither can our purse contain true wealth. Since, scientifically speaking, even mortals are not material beings, but merely false mental concepts, and the real man is a spiritual idea, true consciousness alone can be the receptacle which holds man's true wealth. Then, instead of looking into a bank book or a leather purse, we must look into our thinking if we would discern what it is that has been outgoing and what it is that is incoming.

What was it that went out from thought when we were healed and first began an earnest study of the Bible in connection with Science and Health? Was it not false beliefs about God and man and the universe? Was there not also a gradual outgoing of sins we had personally cherished for many years? As we sincerely and understandingly endeavor to follow in the footsteps of the Way-shower, daily and hourly these counterfeit thoughts are going out; and let us rejoice in their outgoing, for it is their retention that impoverishes.

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