Article September 9, 1922 Issue

Correcting Thought

MILTON SIMON

Christian Scientists the world over are realizing that their religion reveals to them an unchanging, abiding Principle. The world seems to be searching for something upon which to base its reasoning and hope; and in its endeavors keeps shifting from one line of thought or set of human opinions to another, always to find the last no more satisfactory than the first. One accepting the world's standard of thinking cannot help but regard himself as a victim of intrigue and chance, having no weapon with which to meet the seemingly overwhelming dangers and disasters apparently so rife.

To such a one Christian Science comes bringing a wonderful assurance and promise, even as Peter says, giving "a reason of the hope" that is in one. The Principle of this Science is real, unchanging, demonstrable, and wholly good. It is always available to everybody, everywhere, irrespective of what one's past life may have been. We can rid ourselves of the fears and besetments of this mortal existence, and come under the entirely beneficent action of divine Principle now, by relinquishing whatever is wrong in our present thinking,—by replacing every wrong thought with spiritual or right concepts of God and His universe. Whatever one's condition or environment seems to be, he may turn to God, and experience harmony in proportion as his thought is right with Him.

Are your present surroundings inharmonious? Do those about you seem to be continually talking of subjects that tend to drag you down and away from the spiritual line of thought which you know is alone your salvation? Possibly those near you are sensual, deceitful, opposed to spiritual living,—seemingly channels for the worst phases of wrong thinking, so that it seems difficult to realize that there is an abiding Principle. It is in just such human experiences that Christian Science comes to our aid to prove that, whatever mortal mind seems to be thinking or doing, God has certainly not ceased to govern and control. Are we not continually surrounded by the presence, power, and love of God? And is not His infinite goodness the only real environment? Indeed it is; but, as Mrs. Eddy tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 470), through our wrong thinking, we have "assumed the loss of spiritual power, the loss of the spiritual presence of Life as infinite Truth without an unlikeness, and the loss of Love as ever present and universal." We, then, because of our ignorance of God, have failed to look away from our surroundings to behold the truth that God still governs and controls, and has never ceased and can never cease to do so.

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