Article March 31, 1923 Issue

Emergence

LENA HULME

IF we were to ask one who knows nothing of Christian Science what constitutes living, in all probability the answer would be that it consists of all the varied daily experiences of each and all; by this, meaning every phase of human activity, every so-called human pleasure or pain, perhaps at the same time believing that the more the so-called pleasure exceeds the bounds of convention laid down by an orderly society, the more is life being experienced!

On page 203 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy says, "The foam and fury of illegitimate living and of fearful and doleful dying should disappear on the shore of time; then the waves of sin, sorrow, and death beat in vain." Now, mankind would like "illegitimate living" and "fearful and doleful dying" to disappear; but until Christian Science was revealed and given to the world, the methods used to neutralize the false sense of living and destroy the belief in death availed little. On the contrary, they seem to have strengthened the belief in their inevitability. Christian Science has come with its loving message, telling the wondrous story of the all-inclusiveness of God, and how to utilize this truth in daily living,—healing humanity's wounds, giving peace instead of anxiety, replacing doubt and despair with certainly and joy.

Science and Health abounds with passage declaring the allness of God, good; and as we base our thinking on God as so revealed, each day is hallowed. Wherever we may be placed, whether in office, workshop, home, or church, we may be about our Father's business; we may be destroying the belief that Life is in matter, or is expressed in any seeming activity which derives its motive power from that belief, by the fact that all true existence is spiritual and harmonious. "Principle," our Leader says, "is absolute. It admits of no error, but rests upon understanding" (Science and Health, p. 283). Then, in the degree that we understand divine Principle to be God, and therefore ever present, just in that degree will our work become more perfect. Inaccuracies and inexactness will then be readily detected and corrected, and slipshod methods become unacceptable to us. If we know God as Love, we cannot be unloving or unkind; neither shall we believe in the reality of sin, disease, or death, because they do not express Love, God, but arise from the belief that good is absent. Then, again, God being Mind, Spirit, He does not express Himself through materiality, but in pure, spiritual thoughts; hence there can be neither life nor activity in anything that does not express these thoughts. God's creation being spiritual, perfect, and all-inclusive, He cannot know anything outside of it; neither can man, His image and likeness.

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