Article January 20, 1923 Issue

The Divine Viewpoint

NELLE B. BEARDSLEE

Thoreau once said: "There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, not a grain more. The actual objects which one man will see from a hill-top are just as different from those which another will see as the beholders are different." This fact which Thoreau discerned regarding the objects of nature, the Christian Scientist knows to be equally true regarding every human experience; for to the Christian Scientist it has been demonstrated that God, good, being omnipresent, all that is perfect, beautiful, satisfying, is always and everywhere present, and the viewpoint of the individual determines the amount of good which he discerns and enjoys.

It may be said that the mission of Christian Science is so to spiritualize one's viewpoint that the presence of good may be apparent here and now; for this Science seeks not to change that which God hath created, but to unveil it. It is the operation of divine Love which spiritualizes thought and gives the true viewpoint. Divine Love enables us to understand the Father and His manifestations, even as human affection helps us to understand each other in daily living. We then come to find that the true viewpoint reveals to us, in the exact degree that we possess it, the present perfectness of being, and destroys the evil which to unenlightened thought may seem to be.

Divine Love is and always has been reflected through spiritual understanding by God's man. Jesus was awake to it; indeed, it was the Christ he manifested. We might say it was Jesus' correct viewpoint which enabled him to behold, spiritually, the perfect man, where material sense saw a sick person; and Mrs. Eddy tells us in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 477), "This correct view of man healed the sick."

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