Article August 11, 1923 Issue

God's Gifts to Man

CONSTANCE I. CLAGHORN

Paul tells us, "We have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God." Those who understand even a little of the revelation of Christian Science know that the "Spirit which is of God," spoken of in the above reference, means divine understanding, which makes plain to us "the things that are freely given to us of God."

In her message to The Mother Church for June, 1906, on page 5 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," our Leader says, "Wholly apart from this mortal dream, this illusion and delusion of sense, Christian Science comes to reveal man as God's image, His idea, coexistent with Him— God giving all and man having all that God gives." We must learn, therefore, to separate the things that are given of God from the illusions or delusions of material sense, which claim, and so often seem, to be real.

Christian Science teaches us that God is divine Mind, Life, Truth, Love. And since man coexists with God, he certainly must have all that God imparts. Therefore, man's true environment consists only of what God gives. Again, Paul tells us, "God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." As we begin to appreciate man's gifts from God, we are able to utilize them to the overcoming of sense-delusion. The realization of man's true possessions enables us to live up to our divine possibilities. Through the better understanding that the spiritual power we possess lies in man's reflection of the divine qualities of Mind, we lose the sense of fear, which says that there is power in other than divine thoughts.

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